Quotes About Standards

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.

I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.

Modeling was very difficult. It's obviously a lot about appearances - it's everything, really.

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

Are great men ever really good? I know they can be, but we judge them by a different standard. Greatness changes them, whatever they were to start with. It's like war—does any war ever settle anything? But we can't judge that way. The test of a war isn't whether it solved things. You have to ask, Was fighting the war better than not fighting it? And I guess the same kind of test ought to be used on great men.

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

These were the new protocols. Strictures that had not existed before. Now they did.

but she did nothing to make her face prettier, since it was her opinion that beautiful women might be desired but were never respected, certainly not feared.

When I forget to do the dishes, that's because no one's perfect. When you forget to do the dishes, it's because you're a selfish asshole.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

Here's what I've learned about the people in this city," Darcy was saying. "They grade their women on a curve. If someone is described as sophisticated, it means once during college she visited Paris, and if someone is described as beautiful, it means she's fifteen pounds overweight instead of forty. And

For Connie had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything.

Electrical Manufacturers Association. Isn't that so?' 'He agreed it was. I had gotten my first "yes." '"The Electrical Manufacturers Association regulations say that a properly designed motor may have a temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit above room temperature. Is that correct?

The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people