Standard Quotes

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.