Standard Quotes

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.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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.

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

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.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.