Quotes About Standards

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

In the next revolution of taste it is possible that poets may turn to the study of Dryden. He remains one of those who have set standards for English verse which it is desperate to ignore.

You are being veey demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisy yoy? You really should have stayed single--all woman-worshippers shouod be single. They never find the woman who answers all the requirements.

But I never did, because it never seemed right, and I didn't want to settle for anything less than what my brothers and sister have.

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

You cant publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face —a full body was unnecessary.

those before-and-after shots of women undergoing the knife and accepting poison to change themselves — the lines on their faces repaved like old roads, their bulbous noses whittled into aristocratic ridges.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many of noble birth; but . . . God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. 1 COR. 1:26-27

I am happy for Amazon.com's success. As one of the first indie Authors who published on Amazon and was featured as their Author Success Story, I should think so! So should Amazon be happy for the successes of their Author Success Stories for their continued successes reflect on Amazon's continued nurturance and support for Indie Authors and the very ones who helped them win the standards battle over other ebook retailers.

you are essentially saying is that success is for the mediocre.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.