Quotes about Standards

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?

the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.