Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Eliot Spitzer

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

Fareed Zakaria

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Camryn Manheim

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

Carly Simon

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

Carly Simon

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Irwin Edman

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Edmund Hillary

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Jay Pharoah

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Dario Argento

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.

Jim George

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

Jon Heder

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Markwayne Mullin

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

Serge Lang

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Sarah Zettel

To ask for things of quality without setting a standard of quality is to invite many disappointments.

Wayne Chirisa

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

Talib Kweli

For deep adherents, the Koran would seem to echo great truths given directly to a vaunted and hallowed prophet by a deity of overwhelming power and grandeur. If you don’t hold any such archaic notions, however, the words attributed to Allah come ac...

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing l...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why should not I believe in them, since they have so much on their side:­ tradition, the concurrence of ma...

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of equality are about as comparable as dry and wet. Think of it in terms of ten teenage boys t...

For a Glory and a Covering: A Practical Theology of Marriage