Quotes About Standards

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

As hire As, and Bs hire Cs," the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to seine up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.

And it must be understood that the adjective "white" here means a true, blinding salt-white, and not the dirty beige that passes for white in poorly illuminated textile markets.

The rationale for the FDA's rigid standards is to avoid the sale of a drug like thalidomide. But the unintended consequence is almost certainly to allow many more people to die prematurely than would have died from side-effects under a less restrictive regime. We count and recount the costs of such side-effects. We do not count the costs of not allowing new drugs to be made available.

a better explanation may be the fundamental deterioration of standards in both legislation and governance that we see in nearly every democracy, regardless of their different twentieth-century histories

To be true to the Bauhaus is not to follow a "style." It is to maintain impeccable standards, consider every nuance, and make successful functioning the priority.

I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job.

You'll always have people saying 'these guys look good' but there's a difference in what we're looking for. We want our fighters to look like fighters, sure, but the moves still have to look good.

I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

I believe all men that are desired by masses of women due to looks, drive, and character are all more than likely to be seeing multiple women (Rightfully so if they are single).

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

In the dance world, you have to have a certain muscular shape; you have to have long limbs and willowy shoulders. It's hard to have breasts.

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things - not sidelined, marginalized.