#standard

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. ↗

— Mario Batali

#live #living #nurturing #society #standard

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. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#acceptable #along #attitude #based #church

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#beautiful #conduct #courage #deal #discipline

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#beauty #character #conduct #contributes #courage

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#good #own #raised #someone #standards

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#exactness #great #literature #purity #standard

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus