Standard Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.