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  • Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

  • With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

    Dream   Book   Self  
  • You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

  • It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

  • Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

    1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.
  • A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

    Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr
  • The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

    Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.116, Harmony
  • By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

    "Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2014.
  • How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  • You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

    Mistake   Mean   Men  
  • Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.

  • Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

  • The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

  • Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

    "Hey, did you hear the one about the California recall election? Chads may have been hung in Florida, but the Golden State is keeping the nation's comics in funny business" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. August 28, 2003.
  • It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

  • If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 23, 2015
  • One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

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