#stand

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#host #hostess #lady #macbeth #mankind

My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#crazy #equivalent #fear #go #home

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anybody #excuse #expects #higher #higher standard

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world. ↗

— James Forrestal

#build #country #economic #foundations #leadership

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve

Whoever wants to understand much must play much. ↗

— Gottfried Benn

#must #play #understand #wants #whoever

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#another #i #i am #live #responsible