Quotes About Standard

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director, the regulator, the standard of them all. Metaphysics cannot live without definition; but prudence is cautious how she defines. Our courts cannot be more fearful in suffering fictitious cases to be brought before them for eliciting their determination on a point of law, than prudent moralists are in putting extreme and hazardous cases of conscience upon emergencies not existing.

The true standard of the arts is in every man's power; and an easy observation of the most common, sometimes of the meanest things in nature, will give the truest lights, where the greatest sagacity and industry, that slights such observation, must leave us in the dark, or, what is worse, amuse and mislead us by false lights.

Giornate che a metterle assieme e pigiarle tutte quante non ne uscirebbe una stilla di vita. Ma la vita è così: ammassata e secca, piena di avvenimenti sterili e ripetuti e sempre uguali e di cui si perde memoria. Spremi, e verrà fuori un pulviscolo di frustrazioni standard e un odore di fenolo, un polverizzarsi di garze faraoniche.

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

Over the season you have waves. It is very hard to go through the whole season at the same standard and winning games in the same way.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.

I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about change and its lack of encoded rules. Then, together with them, we should look closely at how such people's speech and writing diverges from the kind of English that they would like to acquire.

Complete barista-standard coffee machines cost from £1,600 to more than £20,000.

I am the man that everyone is compared to in this business.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins.

Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Not only is the charge false that Jesus sponsors antinomianism, but in fact he demands a standard of legal obedience more stringent than that of the scribes and Pharisees, who merely require a minimal outward adherence to the literal sense of the Law.

External effects are everywhere. Almost every major transaction we make affects other people who are not a party to the transaction. When someone buys a Lexus, he sets a new standard for the street. When a firm advertises a Barbie doll, it creates a want that was not there before.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.

We did all the standard camp numbers: Down By The Aegean, I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa, This Land is Minos's Land.

Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't. You simply ask, "Does this activity help me fulfill one of God's purposes for my life?