Quotes About Standards

Lydia is an excellent student! She's a clever girl, only these teachers are such sticklers for having all papers and tests completed, and they leave no room for judging her by her own merit.

But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?

Except I do care about being pretty. Der. I don't think there's a single person in the world who doesn't care about being pretty. Any female, at any rate.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.

higher standard than her other children, to demand more from her, yet at the same time to overlook her successes in favor of her faults.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.

It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less -- even a vague pathetic facsimile of less -- than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don't settle for less. These guys exist because there are a lot of women out there who allow them to.

The believer and the unbeliever recognize two different final standards for living including that aspect of living known as thinking, reasoning, and arguing. They are divided by their ultimate commitments, either to Christ or to some other authority (usually themselves).

People who live in the last places-the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world- often represent the best of who we are and the finest standards of what we are to become.

I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.

I would not join any club which would have me be a member.

I do not want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.

The idea of a personal God who protects us, loves us, and then punishes us by not allowing us into Heaven, but instead casts us into Hell for eternity if we haven't met his standards of living, is so outlandish that it can only be taught to children who don't know any better—which, by the way, is how it's done. If a person hasn't been introduced to this mythical idea about God in early childhood, he or she becomes increasingly hard to preach to.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

I'd been seen the day before in a neighborhood that wasn't up to revolutionary standards, photographing a pile of garbage cans. It's forbidden. Garbage is not a good souvenir of North Korea. There are so many beautiful things to photograph.