Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

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

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living?

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

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

The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.