Quotes of: High-standards Keyword

The flick of her hip is distilled erotica, a practiced sexuality.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Irving Babbitt

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Diane Ravitch

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

French

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Everyone you meet is an aspect of the gods and has a lesson to teach you.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Richard Matheson

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

Evgeny Morozov

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Hume

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

B. R. Ambedkar

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

Christopher Hitchens

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Irving Babbitt

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

Bridget Fonda

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Michelle Bachelet

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is t...

Emmeline Pankhurst