Quotes About Standards

Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

I don't know any woman who is happy with her looks. I certainly wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who was.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Her ass looks its best here, with the little wrinkles and pockets fairly well ironed out.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

You get what you tolerate.

As a leader, you get what you tolerate. People do not repeat behavior unless it is rewarded.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

We experience the wish for more perfect bodies as our own desire, as indeed it is, yet it is hard to separate out the ways bodies are seen, talked about and written about and the effect of that on our own personal perception of our own bodies and other bodies.

Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

That seems to be crossing some kind of line," I say. :So anything goes?" They both stare at me- Beetee with doubt, Gale with hostility. "I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

while Peeta was the very model of what a young man should be, I wasn't old enough to have any boyfriend at all.

So you intend to spend the remainder of your life whoring, drinking, wagering, and being as outrageous as you can manage?" Bram shook himself. He made it a point to be serious as little as possible, and neither did he want to argue with two newly married men about the meruts of being leg-shackled."Please Phin," he said aloud. "I would never think so small. You know my ultimate goal is to lower the standards of morality enough that everything I do becomes acceptable.