Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ritchie Blackmore

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

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Richard Wiseman

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven..

William Osler

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

Henry B. Eyring

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

Chris Elliott

It was Mark. He took control. He set standards that had never been set.

Martha Beck

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Keith Richards

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

R. C. Sproul

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

Walter Benjamin

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Quentin Crisp

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Jane Austen

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Jeffrey Schloss

There are polemical extremes that are getting more hostile to each other,

Blaise Pascal

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Aristotle

The best things are placed between extremes.

Sloane Crosley

We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.