278 Quotes About Standards

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

In America the biggest is the best.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

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.

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.