Quotes About Standards

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

It shouldn't matter. She knew it shouldn't matter. But the fact was that some people were so unacceptably, hurtfully beautiful, it made you feel ashamed. Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see. This was what a woman was meant to look like. Exactly this.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

The problem is that Sophie would't want to date the sort of man who would want to date her.

Average wasn't good enough. Average was too big. Everyone knew that. There was an obesity crisis in this country! She didn't want to fat-shame other people, but she certainly wanted to fat-shame herself because she deserved to be shamed.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you"re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn"t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

It's one thing to expect teachers to challenge each child, and expect kids to do their best. It's another to expect that the best will be the same for everyone.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

I am picky about the books I read. I don't waste time on head trash. I think Benjamin Disraeli said it best, "When I want to read a good book I write one.

I've told her not to come here expecting validation or exemption from the usual rules of human decency.

She loves that Nathan thinks she's pretty, but she also wishes that Nathan could see the beauty in less conventionally attractive women, too. It makes him sound shallow and misogynistic when he denigrates women's appearances.

And there were breasts absolutely everywhere — hoisted high in push-up bras, tamed and contoured under tight tops in T-shirt bras, firm and unfettered inside tiny dresses. And nearly all paired with minuscule bottoms and tiny taut waists. . . . was having a fabulous pair of breasts a prerequisite in this city? Do they hand them out at Oxford Circus?

Os únicos livros ruins são aqueles tão mal escritos que ninguém publica. Qualquer livro publicado vai ser um "livro bom" para alguém.

Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily. 'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.' ~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.