Standards Quotes
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The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.
Kalki Koechlin
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Richard Matheson
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The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
Ethan Zuckerman
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt Whitman
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Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
Sarah Dessen
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Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.
Alice Mattison
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Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.
Harry Hopkins
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God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
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We make no apologies for setting high standards.
Nancy L. Zimpher
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I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
Wes Montgomery
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Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.
Tinashe
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.
Colin Montgomerie
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I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.
Hillary Clinton
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If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
Mohammed Morsi
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I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
Josie Maran
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Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Howard Stern
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How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
Andrew Murray
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Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.
Catherine Crook de Camp
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When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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I think the standards for food service and quality keep going up, which is exciting. With my restaurant Tabun Kitchen, I wanted to give guests freshly cooked, high-quality ingredients at a reasonable price and I think we've found a way to do it.
Hanan Kattan
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It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.
Amanda Ripley
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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.
Thomas Sowell