Quotes About Standards

After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

No standards anymore. Now Ricky he watches all them old Disney and Warner Brothers toons on DVD. You never have to worry if maybe Bugs Bunny is goin' to get it on with Daffy Duck.

It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What's that say about the rest of us?

Kabul reminds me of Sofia in that the traffic is virtually nil by capital city standards;

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

If you see my stats, everyone is thinking that Bruno has to score in every game, Bruno has to assist in every game.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

Donald Trump, you don't stand for our values.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

People put too much emphasis on looks.

For so long I felt like I needed to be 18, 19, 20 years old because that's what the entertainment industry tells you.

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

Call one a thief and he will steal": put a stigma on a calling and its followers adjust their morals to it, for it is natural that "the normal conscience," as Hugh Black says, "rises to the demands made on it, and easily falls to the limit of the standard expected from it.

there are some values worth standing up for, regardless of shifting cultural mores.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Equality as it is currently pursued is incompatible with true liberty; for liberty involves an inner working with reference to standards, the right subordination, in other words, of man's ordinary will to a higher will. There is an inevitable clash, in short, between equality and humility.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.