Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Olivia Newton-John

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Wilde

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Marcus Giles

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

Kevin Shelley

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

Venus Williams

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Josie Maran

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season

Alexandra Adornetto

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

Anatole Broyard

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

Jennifer Lawrence

Being inappropriate comes easy to me.

Gilbert Gottfried

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Lauren Oliver

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

Helen Hunt

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Will Ferrell

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Leslie Easterbrook

I can be inappropriate at times.

Gretchen Rubin

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Edith Stein

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Ed Belfour

I'm definitely one of the best. Always have been; always will be. I won't accept anything less.

David Tudor

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Audre Lorde

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

John Riley

We believe that Danaher's proposal is an attempt to coerce Cooper shareholders into accepting an opportunistic bid to acquire Cooper at a low price,

Riley Wallace

What he's done, accepting his role that way, has been a big part of this team.

Nelson Fields

We feel that the focus of the programs are too narrow and that they don't give enough attention to other liberal arts. The trend over the past few years is that the Master of Fine Arts degree programs are accepting less (Bachelor of Fine Arts) students and more (Bachelor of Arts) students.