Standards Quotes

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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil,… — Ayn Rand
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… — China Mieville
They will stop calling brides beautiful after todayâ€”you have simply set the standard too high,' he said. — Anna Godbersen
Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.… — Isaac Watts
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser… — Mitch Albom
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his… — Nathaniel Branden
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried… — Rob Sheffield
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level… — Judith Lewis Herman
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired… — Ted Chiang
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You… — Frank Herbert
Itâ€™s fairly standard. Also, Iâ€™m fourteen. Also, your beardâ€™s stupid.â€ â€œIsnâ€™t this fun?â€ Skulduggery said brightly. â€œThe three of us getting along so well. — Derek Landy
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over artâ€“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

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