At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible.
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
You've got to set high standards for yourself.
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.
I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy. . . I'm not. I'm boring. . . At least by party standards.
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them. "
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.
People of difference are always held to different standards.