Top 28 Impossible Standards Quotes
#1. Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they're] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
Gloria Steinem
#2. God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt Whitman
#3. I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
Kate Grenville
#5. Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.
Juan Villoro
#6. I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
Charlotte Bronte
#7. It is useless to judge nineteenth-century Mormons by late twentieth-century standards. Both men and women were given an impossible task and failed at it. All we can do today is sympathize with them in their tragedies and marvel at their heroism as they suffered.
Todd M. Compton
#8. Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
Robert Breault
#9. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
Liu Cixin
#10. After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
Bob Beauprez
#11. Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!
Muhammad Asad
#14. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.
Stephen Colbert
#18. Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.
Alan Moore
#19. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Sigmund Freud
#20. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
C.S. Lewis
#21. Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.
Leo Strauss
#23. Small things start us in new ways of thinking
V.S. Naipaul
#24. You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
R. Kelly
#25. The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
L. Ron Hubbard
#26. I have never read a book that didn't in some way impact my life
Jenny
#27. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil Gaiman
#28. Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.
Richard Sennett
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