Top 1200 Standard English Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

One of my top priorities in Congress is creating jobs and promoting a growing economy that raises the standard of living for all Americans.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

There are women who can play at my standard, if not better, and they can beat men, too, so it would be nice to see them do it as well.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.

Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Clothing for larger sizes doesn't have to look frumpy and old; it should seamlessly integrate fashion - like Universal Standard.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Music should change. Technically, we have come a long way - matching up to the international standard. It is good.

A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

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

Well, I've been a legislator, and I'm the governor now. When you get in these positions, you've got to be held to a pretty high standard.

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

We have this weird beauty standard where women, like, shouldn't grow: what we think is feminine is often what is also pre-pubescent.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.

The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

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