Quotes About Standard

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.

The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

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

When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. It's a thing I make sure I do.

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions.

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.