Standards Quotes · Page 6

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

— Vera Miles

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

— Jane Alexander

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

— Fareed Zakaria

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

— Ryan Kwanten

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

— Terry Bozzio

I have standards and you quite frankly don't pass them.

— Somer Ware

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

— Andrew Robertson

When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day…

— James Milner

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

— Julia Quinn

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.…

— Paul Cezanne

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if…

— Jimmy Page

The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

— Rush Limbaugh

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we're trying to exceed the standards we set…

— Nipsey Hussle

I have a very focused agenda. And I hold myself to the highest standards. I judge myself more harshly than any voter,…

— Kathy Hochul

I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources…

— Jane Goodall

He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just…

— Nora Roberts

It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin…

— Enoch Powell

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're…

— Fred Ward

The Trump Administration wants to unilaterally do away with the states' rights protections in the Clean Air Act. But the authority given…

— Josh Shapiro

Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of…

— Wilbur Ross

You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. .…

— Caroline Stevermer

I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap…

— Mike Royer

When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of…

— Seth Klarman

Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition…

— William Easterly

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper…

— Walt Whitman

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what…

— Duke Ellington

I believe it has changed so much because of the impact you can have from that position. You are so involved in…

— Eric Berry

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe…

— Marion Nestle

“Be technologically smart, convenient, and affordable.”

— Anonymous

“Samantha, you're in my world now. We have standards here." -Jesse”

— Wendy Ely

You should shoot for high standards, and believe they're obtainable.

— Buster Posey

The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

— Shamcey Supsup

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

— Damien Hirst

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

— Ramon Bautista

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

— David Brooks