Standard Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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