Quotes About Standards

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

But it is a fact that no man, howsoever graced, can shine in juxtaposition to a very pretty woman.

Why is the cross the symbol of our faith? To find the answer look no farther than the cross itself. Its design couldn't be simpler. One beam horizontal—the other vertical. One reaches out—like God's love. The other reaches up—as does God's holiness. One represents the width of his love; the other reflects the height of his holiness. The cross is the intersection. The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

It's okay to expect more from the people around you. That doesn't make you unreasonable. It makes you smart.

Sure she's beautiful, but step back a moment. Really look at her objectively. She's not the most gorgeous woman you or I have ever seen.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.

I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior, Alaric said. I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation.

No! It isn't fair! Rachel is EVERYONE'S type! I mean, she's attractive and athletic and well put together and successful and went to Yale and is making a difference in the world. What about ME? What about nice girls like me, who are just...well, nice? What about the nice girls? How are we supposed to compete with all of these competent, athletic, shower-taking girls, with their diplomas and their Palm Pilots and their teeny tiny butts?

Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise.

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature.

No male successfully measures up to patriarchal standards without engaging in an ongoing practice of self-betrayal.

Women who would no more tolerate a friendship in which they were emotionally and physically abused stay in romantic relationships where these violations occur regularly. Had they brought to these bonds the same standards they bring to friendship they would not accept victimization.

If mediocrity becomes the norm, the quantity of outstanding producers will decline, as will general prosperity.

America's leaders should be examples of integrity and high moral standards. When their behavior evokes shame rather than pride and becomes something that we don't want to discuss in front of the children at the kitchen table, we should consider impeachment.

That primitive Skunk Works operation set the standards for what followed. The project was highly secret, very high priority, and time was of the essence.

The analyst's conclusions must always rest upon the figures and upon established tests and standards.

The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.

the so-called democratization of reviews means the lowering of standards, and that subject knowledge, history and critical context are at risk of being lost in favour of people who only know how to write in attention-seeking soundbites.

To speak seriously: the standards of goodness which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.