#standard

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#achieve #afford #discipline #good #having

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#am #beautiful #cherish #else #enough

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#called #come #cooks #could #enough

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

#in my opinion #interest #liable #majority #maxim

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#besides #contemporary #many #may #other

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #hate #i #implies #overweight

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#cast #counted #elections #fashion #federal

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. ↗

— John McCain

#could #days #decency #dream #emulate

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#hard #jack #jack nicklaus #nicklaus #play