Standars Quotes & Sayings

Glasgow was home-made ginger biscuits and Jennifer Lawson dead in the park. It was the sententious niceness of the Commander and the threatened abrasiveness of Laidlaw. It was Milligan, insensitive as a mobile slab of cement, and Mrs Lawson, witless with hurt. It was the right hand knocking you down and the left hand picking you up, while the mouth alternated apology and threat. — William McIlvanney

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda — Eva Ibbotson

I almost wish that I could replace their hideous flok dolls, as a gesture of my gratitude. Could you, perhaps, have one of the local women fashion a crude poppet out of, say, a wooden spool and some scraps of wool? Nothing fancy. Aesthetic standars for this particular collection were not high, believe me. "Ugly" and "ill-crafted" seem to be part of the key criteria. — Beth Fantaskey

We must first get over the myth that older workers can't innovate. — Vivek Wadhwa

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. — Loretta Young

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. — Joseph Addison

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,
to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings

I make time every day to think. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about — Michael Grant

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true. — Eve Ensler