Quotes About Standards

or there, since few perfect examples

It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself.

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores.

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

By the 2020s, America could become a society that is good, by today's standards, and also one that works.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

Shockingly, it turned out to be Andrew Lang, perhaps Tylor's most vociferous defender, to call the world's attention to the facts that (1) certain people on the simplest level of material culture had some of the highest moral standards found anywhere in the world, and that (2) those standards were based on their belief in a single God who created them, watched over them, gave them his laws, and enforced them.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

We do not need to adopt the standards, the mores, and the morals of Babylon. We can create Zion in the midst of Babylon. We can have our own standards for music and literature and dance and film and language. We can have our own standards for dress and deportment, for politeness and respect. We can live in accordance with the Lord's moral laws. We can limit how much of Babylon we allow into our homes by the media of communication.

A man got to have a code. --The Wire

They say you're the best." I didn't inform her that whoever called us "the best" had pretty low standards. I guess we were the best in town at this, but who would you brag to about that? It's not like this shit has its own section of the phone book.

Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends

If your local team is Golden State and they win three straight, it might mean that the Warriors at least may be getting better than their typical twenty-win season. If your local team is the Lakers, a three-game win streak is ho-hum.

The very fact that she had been in the grotto and viewed the collection would have catastrophic repercussions for herself and the throne. Married women did not conduct themselves in such a fashion, and married princesses with Puritanical mothers were held to a higher standard still.