Quotes of: Standards Keyword

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

James Dyson

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Virginia Postrel

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

William O'Neill

Driver: I'll see you in five minutes. Standard: I'll see you in four.

Drive

Columbus: When Tallahassee goes Hulk on a zombie, he sets the standard for "not to be fucked with".

Zombieland

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Stella Young

Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER......

Zainab Asif

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Cancer Is Not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Hans Haacke

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.

The Magus

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Norwegian Wood

the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.

Love's Paradox

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Joyce Maynard

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

Richard Lamm

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Mike Davidson

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

Agnes Macphail

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

Kate Reardon

I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

Charlie Pierce