#standard

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#away #believe #best #continued #expectations

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#cannot #capable #child #children #christ

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#deployed #enhanced #exacting #i #i do

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#bold #craftsman #good #inspires #judge

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. ↗

— John Bruton

#case #combating #crime #develop #eu

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

#espionage #existence #inside-out #lived #mentality

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#children #creativity #name #out #pushing

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics