Quotes About Standards

People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.

Unfortunately Bollywood goes ga-ga over thin not fit bodies.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and as thorough as he could.

You cannot say that one woman is 'more beautiful' than another, though people always do. It's so ridiculous to say that.

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. I learned that at my mother's knee and other low joints

When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.

Changing personal behavior to meet standards requires willpower, but willpower without self-awareness is as useless as a cannon commanded by a blind man.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

Lesser breeds without the Law.

If men can be categorized for their looks on a scale of 1 to 10, they can also be graded for their sexual prowess, A to F." —MARGARET THATCHER I

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

And Sophie wrote: "We carry all our standards within ourselves, only we don't look for them closely enough. Perhaps because they are the severest standards.

there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.

You're not in this world to meet my standards, and I'm not in this world to meet yours, but we are all in this world to meet the standards of justice.