Top 1200 Standard English Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

I feel very passionate about maintaining the same level of standard and respect for the food as an Iron Chef myself.

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

'Star Trek' still - I'm kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting.

I was an English major.

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

My English no good.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

As a general rule, I don't like to see laws that allow for the arrest and incarceration of people based on a sort of subjective standard.

We're not savages. We're English.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

People say that the brain is a muscle and that one of the best exercises for any brain is learning another language and to switch from one to another as much as you can. I've found out that when I have trouble regarding any character or any particular scene in English, sometimes I'll switch to Spanish and I'll solve the problem that I've encountered. If I'm working in Spanish and I don't know how to approach certain scenes or certain emotions, or how to say this and that, I just switch to English to try to solve it that way and it works.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

English is not my language.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's word.

I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

Well, I'm English.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I'm English. All we do is blush.

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.

You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard for communication.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Can I press one for English?

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

I used to watch a lot of people and think, 'You're not dedicated.' It's half an hour into the game and they have dropped their standard. They weren't putting the effort in.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

To be able to know kids one day will want to be like me, I hold myself to a super high standard.

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.