Quotes About Raising Standards

#1. We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Joseph J. Romm

#2. Like the tide eroding the surface of a rock, the raising of children slowly eats away at all the fanciful ideals and standards that you were so adamant about when your first child was born.

Jon Ziegler

#3. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

#4. Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Frederick W. Smith

#5. I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have.

Katie Nolan

#6. If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. 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

#8. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

Violette Leduc

#9. I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

Sam Lipsyte

#10. We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Ida Tarbell

#11. The seasons and the years came and went ... and always ... one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

W.G. Sebald

#12. Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Patricia McCormick

#13. Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#14. For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.

Jennifer Donnelly

#15. We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

Sergei Lavrov

#16. The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

Frank Dane

#17. You should have read the directions before you showed up to the party.

Charlie Sheen

#18. The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.

Susan Richards Shreve

#19. I'm a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Dan Gable

#20. It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Ron Davies

#21. I know you ...
That you hold inside
Vast possibilities and dreams
And limitless love.

Ilchi Lee

#22. Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

L. Tom Perry

#23. The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

#24. No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

Larry Merchant

#25. The whole house smells of Granny. There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Fredrik Backman

#26. Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Li Peng

#27. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

Saddam Hussein

#28. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Denzel Washington