Standards Quotes

Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

People of difference are always held to different standards.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall, one from another. There are virtually no standards.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

Emotional intelligence is making a huge mistake, but learning from it, forgiving yourself, and setting new and higher related-standards below which you will never operate.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

I am not the type that is trying to help add balance to your life by removing the balancein your savings account.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.

Beauty is an illusion.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, " said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It’s wrong.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.