#standards

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

— Vince McMahon

#internet #just #lowered #media #news

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

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#been #best #comfortable #done #downs

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. ↗

— Elihu Root

#become #case #community #conduct #continued

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#along #detainee #dollars #every #koran

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ago #always #believed #everyone #gotten

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bribery #capital #cared #company #corporate

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#appeal #barbarism #made #standards #which

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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