Standard Quotes

1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your beard’s stupid.” “Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of us getting along so well. — Derek Landy
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is… — Gordon Korman
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a… — Aldo Leopold
Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one… — Mark Driscoll
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. — Richard Matheson
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last… — Maurice Sendak
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls… — Mary Pipher
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard — Francis Fukuyama
The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the… — Jodi Picoult
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.… — Robin Hobb
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… — Fernando Pessoa
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than… — C.S. Lewis
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. — Leonardo da Vinci
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard. — Confucius
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest… — E. O. Wilson
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that… — Graham Greene
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed — Algernon Blackwood
Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in… — Susan Cain
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom… — Andrea Dworkin
Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's… — Haruki Murakami
If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard? — David Wong
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of… — Howard Zinn
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always… — Kurt Vonnegut

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