Top 1200 National Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

The burden of the national debt consists not in its being so many millions, or so many hundred millions, but in the quantity of taxes collected every year to pay the interest. If this quantity continue the same, the burden of the national debt is the same to all intents and purposes, be the capital more or less.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

The most difficult thing is to make sure the standards remain high in each restaurant.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.

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

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.

It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

KPMG is committed to the highest standards of professionalism, , and quality, and we are dedicated to the capital markets we serve.

Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best.

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.

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

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

I can't speak highly enough of Petr Cech. He's set the standards of what it is to be a proper man and a gentleman.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

Football's about winning and I'm a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.