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I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.
A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.
I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.
My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.
We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.
If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.
Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.
We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.
Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.
You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.
Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.
The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.
Four Seasons' legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.