Quotes About Standards

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

For instance, being 'confident', 'carefree' and 'unconcerned about one's appearance' are now central aspects of femininity in their own right—even as they sit alongside injunctions to meet standards of beauty that 'only a mannequin could achieve' (Kilbourne, 1999 cited in Gill, 2008, p. 440).

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.