Standard Quotes

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

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.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

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

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

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

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.

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.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.