Quotes About Reputation

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers ' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

Newspaper stories that were originally written to satisfy our daily hunger for idle and impersonal Schadenfreude—to excite and divert and be forgotten the next week—now take their place among serious sources of information and fact, and are treated as if they themselves were not simply raising the question of what happened and who is good and who is bad. I

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

even a child is known by his actions

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad.

Leonard Denton had a squeaky clean rep in the department, squeaky to the point where people almost assumed he would flip out one day and go postal. He was efficient and by the book, admirable qualities. But being admired and having admirable qualities were two totally different animals.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

When SmartScreen identifies a file that has not yet established a reputation, it blocks execution and displays a warning message like the one shown in Figure 4-4

I am not a good man. I am at the present, as a matter of record, rejoicing in one of the most evil reputations in all of England. But don't pity me, Regina, for I swear it is well deserved. But I am very wealthy, and I am a duke, a duke of all things. And you are a commoner. Moreover, much to my joy, you are a commoner with no connections at all. No resources. No protector. You are my natural meat. My natural prey. I want you.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

It was the old New York way of taking life without effusion of blood: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than scenes, except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.

name's Regina Dallas,' I said, 'It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it's got to stay Beaufort now that he's covered you with shame.' '' So

if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—'' She

But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.