Standards Quotes

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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
Weâ€™re freaks, thatâ€™s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, thatâ€™s all. Weâ€™re the tattooed… — J D Salinger
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
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon
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
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole… — Kurt Vonnegut
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
But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a… — Robin Sloan
Most helmsmen wouldâ€™ve been satisfied with a pilotâ€™s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a… — Rick Riordan
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else â€¦ you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a… — Tony Robbins
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards. — Francis Chan
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard… — Randy Alcorn
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps. — Andrew Murray
People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear… — Lee Child

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