Quotes About Standards

As far as natural calamities are concerned, Odisha had a very bad reputation before 2000 when we took over the government. After that, we have achieved international standards as far as controlling the effects of natural calamities. In fact, even the United Nations have complimented us on this.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

In real constabularies, the relevant department that is the subject of 'Line of Duty' is called Professional Standards. However, 'Line of Duty' is set in a fictional anticorruption department, AC-12, in order to prevent any unintentional resemblance to actual units, cases, or individuals.

Beauty should not be culturally relevant; it should be universal.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.

I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

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

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.