Quotes About Reputation

When I retire, everyone is going to respect me for fighting the big names.

There's probably 30 or 40,000 domain names associated with my name. Very few of them I have had anything to do with.

She's been on more laps than a napkin.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

I can understand criticism coming from people who have met me, but it is off-putting to hear nasty things about myself from people I have never met or even seen in life.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.

Lord Goth spent his time riding his hobby horse around the grounds and taking potshots at the garden ornaments with a blunderbuss. Before long he had acquired a reputation for being mad, bad and dangerous to gnomes.

When he spoke, it was almost poetry and much too much truth—two sins the ton would not easily forgive.

I am not like Mikhail or Jacques or, it seems, you. I intend that her protection come above all else. Gregori's voice held an edge. Aidan grinned at him, laughter spilling from his golden eyes. I can only hope I have the chance to see you, Gregori, under the spell of your woman. You must promise that you will bring her to meet us one day. Not if I end up like you or Mikhail. I will not have my dangerous reputation destroyed in such a way.

We no longer whip people through the streets. Instead we send them to executive-level open jails for a few months' R&R before they hire PR teams to restore their reputations. Fraud, perjury, perverting the course of justice count as nothing

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

I began the project of judging Mother Teresa's reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation.

Image and perception are everything, and those who possess them have the ability to determine their own myth, to be taken at their own valuation.

Actions and words are judged by reputations, and not the other way around.

To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his mother's reputation for unchastity.

Imponderable Sir, I presume from some if not all of your many reputations that you might prefer honest and convinced unbelief to the hypocritical and self-interested affectation of faith or the smoking tributes of bloody altars.

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.