Standards Quotes

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

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

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

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

If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.

Build to a standard, not a price.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

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

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

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

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

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

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.