Quotes About Standards

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

I had no idea how long books were supposed to be.

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

You're selective when it comes to sex, but once you're with someone, the standards you would normally hold yourself to go out the window...

But back then, she'd tended to focus first on their appearance, and she could remember saying no to a few guys who hadn't been quite cute enough. And maybe that had been the problem. Maybe she'd turned down Mr. Right because he hadn't been tall enough or whatever, and now -- because he was Mr. Right -- he was already off the market. These days, it seemed like Mr. Rights tended to fly off the shelves perhaps because they were as rare as California condos

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the original has been partially sated by its poor copies.

Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..

I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

We feel free to criticize otherwise-honest police officers who protect crooked cops because of their Blue Code. But we have our White Code. It allows some doctors to get away with clinical shoddiness and bad medicine, and I say to hell with it.

With regard to freedom of speech there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it and prefer Stalinist/fascist standards. It is unfortunate that it remains necessary to stress these simple truths.

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of applying to themselves the standards they apply to others -- more stringent ones, in fact -- plainly cannot be taken seriously when they speak of appropriateness of response; or of right and wrong, good and evil

And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency.

If people cannot rise to the level of applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others they have no right to talk about right and wrong.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.

comparison are designed to make someone fall short

People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway

Au fost dou? persoane excepÅ£ionale. -Åži tu eÅŸti la fel. Nu îmi pierd timpul cu prieteni care nu sunt excepÅ£ionali, spuse Parker.

You're all right, young Magee. You're all right. Since you are, I'll tell you this. That lovely lass inside Gallagher's won't settle for less in a man than hot blood, a strong backbone, and a clever brain. I'm considering you have all three.