Quotes About Standards

I support accountability.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

All my adult life, I've worked in media that demand you maintain your shape.

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

At the end of the day, the Army is a standards-based organization.

You know when you play for Arsenal, if you want to play for Arsenal, you need to be very, very good.

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art. And we would all recognize it when it isn't.

Do you believe that there is any absolute standard in this world? Despise mankind and find out the meshes that you can slip through in the net of the Code. The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Die Elsässerin, die man mir zur Frau vorgeschlagen hat, hat sechs Zehen am linken Fuß: ich kann mit keiner Frau leben, die sechs Zehen hat! Das spräche sich herum, und ich wäre lächerlich. Sie hat nur 18000 Francs Rente! zuwenig Geld und zuviel Zehen!

Men without means ought to be perfect," added Moreau, not suspecting the profundity of that cruel sentence.

Trasladada a París, una mujer que en provincias pasa por ser bonita no llama la menor atención, porque solo es bella según el refrán que reza que «en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey».

It might have been supposed that, like a princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie was rich enough and beautiful enough to choose from among all the princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous than the last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another was short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost all were too fat.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.

I could not allow us, or myself, to drift into a sea of mediocrity after so many years of hard work

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

While compromising may be the name of the game in the world of business, in this candy land we call love, it is not compromising your standards and remembering what you really want and deserve that will ultimately win the day.

The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.