Quotes About Standards

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use standards in posting snippets from news articles on its site.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

Some people need a targeted kind of learning. They need a different approach, like charter schools. There are virtual classrooms that some will do well in. The reality is, if there are no options, if there is just one particular standard, then someone is going to fall through the cracks, as we've seen.

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

It's not about lowering your standards—it's about maturing and having reasonable expectations.

I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.

You deserve better than a man who requires reforming.

All women are beautiful when they are young, and their eyes are full and clear and their voices are soft and their bosoms are round and smooth.

There was something vulgar, even a little improper, in a woman like Sabine who at forty-six looked thirty-five. At

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

When we set standards that are much too high for where we are at this moment, standards we cannot possibly achieve right now, then we will always fail.

I have started the process of releasing the feeling of "being wrong" because they are not fitting someone else's standards.

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell of decomposing bears.

Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

Human actions consist always in a choice between two goods or two evils which are not deemed equivalent. Where there is perfect equivalence, man stays neutral; and no action results. But what is good and what is better, or what is bad and what is worse, is decided according to subjective standards, different with different individuals, and changing with the same individuals according to circumstances.

What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world.