Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely...

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly...

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home…he did not care to read a book or go to a play about...

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

The cult of friendship disturbs me. It’s like our quality is supposed to be measured by the number of friends we have. For me, it’s quite the inverse. When somebody says “I’m friends with everyone”...

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

It’s a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine...

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine...

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for...

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on.” This is...

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law...

In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

Integrity – one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence

Don’t judge the past by the standards of today. It won’t work. They’re incompatible.

If you’re going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you’re going to half-ass it, why bother?

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.

When a person acts in accordance to God’s standards, he gets God’s wisdom.

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that’s not an appealing standard. But to...

Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes…). We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to...

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable...

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don’t think of myself as a tough person.

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

I don’t settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

I don’t claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

The Girlfriend 911 Cheat Sheet: 1) Change your behavior, and you’ll change his. 2) Create a high standard for yourself.3) Create a boundary for yourself and for him.4) Allow him to take the lead every...

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the...