Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

We want to stand on our two feet.

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Alan Kay

I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Bob Marley

Rise and take your stance once again

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

She would be called to the stand by her own attorney.

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Ed McClanahan

I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.

We've got to stand up and take charge. This is a revolution.

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

He doesn't stand for a lot of BS.

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