In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
Love does not measure qualities, nor sets any standards. Love happens.
Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
God will not judge by man’s standard of what is right, but by His own, and they are vastly different!
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
The idea that someone could, or would want to, experience uninterrupted happiness over a period of days, let alone years, is ludicrous. Anyone who feels pleasant and bubbly all the time is either mentally disabled or hooked on crack. Money, on the ot...
A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded...
The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.
