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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return." »Salman Rushdie
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"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success." »Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0" »Charles Lauller
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon
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"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." »Johann von Goethe
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"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." »Sonya Friedman
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"Perfection is only a standard set by the human mind as to what it desires." »Alishia May
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." »Carl R. Rogers
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Lately..... all a girl desires from a guy is a GOOD SOUL(Standard of Ur Living)!!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently." »Ira Erwin
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"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well." »Lawana Blackwell
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"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..." »Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine
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"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for." »Amos Tversky
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"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free." »Aldo Leopold
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"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts
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"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes." »Colonel William Prescott
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability." »Oscar Wilde
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity." »Bill Vaughan
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"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"One main reason the US has been able to prevent its currency and economy from collapsing, despite the latest wars, huge debt and massive currency printing, is because the dollar is the de-facto standard for international trade and reserve currency." »Med Jones
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