Quotes About Standards

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Live the lifestyle instead of paying lip service to the lifesytle. Live with commitment. With emotional content. Live whatever life you choose honestly. Give up this renaissance man, dilettante bullshit of doing a lot of different things (and none of them very well by real standards). Get to the guts of one thing; accept, without casuistry, the responsability of making a choice.

Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

I like girls who are cute and naturally funny. As long as they are not too high-maintenance, then we're good.

...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Don't sleep next to anything that you wouldn't want to wake up next to. Raise your standards ladies.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

They say real girls ain't never perfect, perfect girls ain't never real.

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for an appreciable length of time.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'