Quotes About Standards

A man raises a woman to his own standard, but a woman must take that of the man she marries.

Look, said Mary Ann evenly, if I think you're really attractive, there must be plenty of men in this town who feel the same way. Yeah, said Michael ruefully. Size queens. Oh, don't be silly! Sometimes Michael was sensitive about the dumbest things. He's at least five nine, thought Mary Ann. That's tall enough for anybody.

The French produce the best second-raters in the world.

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way.

It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in (male) culture must achieve and be rated by standards of a tradition she had no part in making - and certainly there is no room in that tradition for a female view, even if she could discover what it was.

what we know to be useless, but expect civilization to value, is beauty;

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. And yet, in making any general judgement of this sort, we are in danger of forgetting how variegated the human world and its mental life are.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.

It was found that men become neurotic because they cannot tolerate the degree of privation that society imposes on them in virtue of its cultural ideals, and it was supposed that a return to greater possibilities of happiness would ensue if these standards were abolished or greatly relaxed.

If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she—this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"—deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

Any work, whatever its genre or perspective, can only be fairly judged by the goals it sets for itself.

It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: 'You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don't believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!

I am reluctantly considering the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Letters) because it is so perfect an example of the divorce in America of intellectual life from all authentic standards of importance and reality.

So far as I can see, he brooded, travel consists in perpetually finding new things that you have to do if you're going to be respectable.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

Know your value, accept nothing but the best.

the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization without guaranteed funding and national or multinational standards is a competition between regions for the lowest possible tax rates. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?