Quotes About Standards

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

Love should require both partners to be very best at all times.

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.

I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age.

Why is Amy amazing and Andy's just able? Well, don't you know a lot of powerful, fabulous women who settle for regular guys, Average Joes and Able Andys?

I waited patiently— years —for the pendulum to swing the other way... Yeah, he's a Cool Guy . But it never happened. Instead, women across the nation colluded in our degradation! Pretty soon Cool Girl became the standard girl. Men believed she existed—she wasn't just a dreamgirl one in a million. Every girl was supposed to be this girl, and if you weren't, then there was something wrong with you .

You're a beautiful woman, and it's difficult for beautiful women to disappear.

I'm not just pretty anymore, I am pretty for my age. It is the truth: My value has decreased.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I didn't bother to ask him why he didn't wait for someone from the American Legation, for I knew the reason. French methods are a little old-fashioned by our cold standards: they believe in the conscience, the sense of guilt, a criminal should be confronted with his crime, for he may break down and betray himself. I told myself again I was innocent

We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand the ancient world?

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don't settle for less.

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Rather than allowing students and teachers to celebrate their success, some would rather we measure success in Britain in terms of failure; that our education system can only truly be of a high standard if significant numbers lose out. This is no way to build a world-class education system.

We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.

I don't think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out - they are head and shoulders above everybody else.

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.