Top 1200 Standard English Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

There's not one person that sets the standard better to be a New York Football Giant than Eli Manning.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

The double standard means men can run around and women cannot. I think I'm up to testing that.

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

The standard Bristol set at being a mother is high for a woman to have to step into. She, as a mom, is crushing it.

Obviously, there is a high standard here of getting into the playoffs and having a chance at the ultimate goal, and that is the Super Bowl.

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.

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

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Many players are of the same standard; it all depends on how your strokes land on the other side of court.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

I am an actor first and foremost. Even without my involvement in politics, I was staying away from sub-standard work.

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

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

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu has to say, I have to kind of impersonate Tu Fu. I have to take on, if you will, his voice and his skin in English, and I have to try to get as deeply into the poem as possible. I'm not trying to make an equivalent poem in English, which can't be done because our language can't accommodate the kind of metaphors within metaphors the Chinese written language can, and often does, contain.

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Just because something is a standard doesn’t mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

Parecon is a very tough-minded economic vision and model, and it sets a standard for us to look at.

Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

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.

When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

I'll take a carb any day of the week, but if I'm being pressed, then I'm sort of into the standard bagel.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.