#standard

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#honest #schools #standards

And I think to be in NATO for the countries of our region, it means more guarantees for us, it means more responsibility for our common security, but it means fulfillment of all standards of civilized world, like protection of human rights and democratic mechanisms. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#civilized world #common #countries #democratic #fulfillment

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#challenge #i #i believe #looking #offered

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#economy #eliminate #fuel #fuel economy #fuel economy standards

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#events #narrative #national #national standards #past

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#means #often #our #own #prevailing

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anybody #excuse #expects #higher #higher standard

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed