Quotes About Standards

The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

Just because you don't look a certain way doesn't mean you're unfit.

The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.

The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

When a person acts in accordance to God's standards, he gets God's wisdom.

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

If people institute wrong institutions, wrong institutions do not just produce wrong people, but wrong people who understand and accept mediocrity as an institution

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.