#standard

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game. ↗

— Patricia Bosworth

#artistry #high-standards #life

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#internet #just #lowered #media #news

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. ↗

— Frank Murkowski

#america #global #increases #nations #our

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#christ #cross #daily #daily life #harm

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#future #guarantee #here #i #just

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#certainly #clear #course #double #food

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards. ↗

— Jay Pharoah

#clubs #out #say #standards #tv

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#animal #called #challenge #country #created