Top 606 Standard Quotes

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It’s been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

People will buy a good electrical car instead of buying a fossil-fuel one, and you get a much better standard of car.

My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.

Clothing for larger sizes doesn’t have to look frumpy and old; it should seamlessly integrate fashion – like Universal Standard.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely.

I used to watch a lot of people and think, ‘You’re not dedicated.’ It’s half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren’t putting the effort in.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

When you look at classical structures, they’re often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it’s not something standard that you can copy.

The ‘Station to Station’ film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It’s a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that – that is how they measure success. I don’t do it like that.

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees’ Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month’s paycheck.

A true athlete is someone who doesn’t just stop training when they stop competing. It’s a way of life, and they keep in shape just to keep up that standard.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

‘Faraway’ takes only minutes or a couple of bus stops to play. The easy to use touch controls work beautifully on the iPad. This is the game that should come standard on every new iPad.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

With a standard editorial cartoon, you’re taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite – a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it’s more storytelling.

The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast – Mississippi, Alabama and so on.

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

My faith and family has helped me a great deal in that it helps me to live to a different standard.

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called ‘All At Sea,’ which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

I get letters from young people telling me that they’re broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, ‘I would rather be heard than paid.’

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is – due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars – the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you’ve set a new standard, and it’s lower.

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

My husband didn’t want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.

I’m suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

I wouldn’t be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people’s standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we’re holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don’t stay really genuine to that, it’s very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life.

Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed… But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I’m wearing their clothes.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I’ve played that at every gig I’ve ever had. And that’s my starting point in the studio.

You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

I love all of my colleagues here at The Federalist, but everyone knows that David Harsanyi is my favorite. I will be forever grateful for the guidance and support he gave me when we started this enterprise. He is a rock. His work is consistent, productive, done to a high standard. He is supportive of his colleagues.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not directly connected to string theory, the discovery of the Higgs boson demonstrated the power of theoretical reasoning.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

I’m considered a huge model because I’m a size six. But… I had a standard body size for catalogues.

Vellimoonga’ works at the box office because there is an inherent honesty to the film. Nothing about the movie has been exaggerated; it’s a comedy that is clean and maintains a certain standard that harks back to Malayalam cinema’s past.

Stanford’s law school application wasn’t the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren’t a loser.

So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We’re new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.

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

I want to widen the pool. In the past, England players have maybe had the comfort of knowing what the next squad is going to be before it’s announced, but I’d like there to be more uncertainty. More competition for places means the standard goes up.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

You need to perform consistently, and if you’re raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.