Quotes About Standards

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

So the big day finally arrives, you are set to enter the ring as a judge for the first time. You have refreshed your memory by re-reading the breed Standard, watching the breed video until you can hum the theme by heart, and studying an Illustrated Standard. You know all you need to know about the idiosyncrasies of the breed, where the breed is strong, and where improvement is needed.

Who is this idiot, Jess? He's willing to kill you and rape a woman, but doesn't want to hurt a minor. Is he kidding? Criminals have to have some standards, baby. Jess sounded amused.

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

I have met many brave men and women, morally superior to myself, whose courage in adversity derives from their faith. But whenever they have chosen to speak or write about it, I have found myself appalled by the instant decline of their intellectual and moral standards. They want god on their side and believe they are doing his work--what is this, even at its very best, but an extreme from of solipsism?

It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.

One of life's great secrets: women don't look for handsome men, they look for men with beautiful women.

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers.

The SI specifies seven fundamental measures: length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.

Perfectionism really is the enemy of happiness and success.

No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones

That was the sly, ruinous thing about motherhood, the thing that twisted your insides with guilt and made you change your mind and lower your standards: giving in was so damned easy. It

That was the sly, ruinous thing about motherhood, the thing that twisted your insides with guilt and made you change your mind and lower your standards: giving in was so damned easy.

Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

They are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.