Quotes About Standards

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, so don't settle for a shark.

Its so funny how we set qualifications for the right person to love, while at the back of our minds we know that the person we truly love will always be an exception

Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards? Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

Me have a rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my woman I'll deal with you. Otherwise, fuck off.

The problem begins when this good enough attitude spills beyond our marketplace choices and into the things we say and do.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

In every other country across the world, guests staying at a hotel are free to open the windows in their rooms, with the exception of one: the United States. American hotel windows are sealed, or painted shut, or manufactured in such a way that they can't open or close in the first place.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

In no event shall any environmental regulations or standards of South Dakota be applicable to this project.

these polluters shall have the sole right to decide what: kind of shit, poison, toxic or hazardous waste they will dump on us. If, at some later date, the tribe should adopt stricter standards for waste disposal, then we must compensate those bastards for the costs arising from the new rules.

Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.