I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.
I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.
Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
To ask for things of quality without setting a standard of quality is to invite many disappointments.
I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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...
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...
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...
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...
If America upholds God's eternal standards and follows His unchanging ways, then it will be blessed with His favor...His protection...His prosperity....But if America should depart from the ways of God, if it should disregard His eternal standards, t...
Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change i...
Where did you get that assault weapon?" "Assault weapon?" Zach turned his head to look at her. "Well, lookey there. You're cute when you blush." Maddie's face grew hotter, but at least he'd mistaken the reason for her embarrassment. Zach turned his f...
When the maker's (or fixer's) activity is immediately situated within a community of use, it can be enlivened by this kind of direct perception. Then the social character of his work isn't separate from its internal or "engineering" standards; the wo...
