Top 1200 National Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence.

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

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

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which cost under $14 million, or $13.5 million, you're still going to spend on an national basis, if you release with a good national release, you're still going to spend, you know, $30-$40 million.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

We've organized human potential and have been better at using human potential better than any country on the face of the Earth. That's because we've recognized that our national creed, our national identity, is that it doesn't matter where you're from, it matters where you're going. You can come from hard circumstances and do great things. We've got to make that true for a whole variety of people who no longer feel that.

In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.

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

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

Carlo Ancelotti is a good coach and a good man. I worked with him for just three months at Parma, before I left for Chelsea, although I had worked with him before with the national team. In my first game for the national team I played with him.

I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.

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

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren't real.

I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.