Quotes About Reputation

Ein Klassiker ist ein Buch, das die Leute loben, aber nicht lesen.

I didn't answer. Mr. Dowater had a reputation for deadpan humor, a humor that was strangely similar to the low-level, sarcastic sniper fire offered by the school's underbleacher population of stoners and class-cutters. It didn't really pay to engage it. After

You would rise in the world? . . . You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Churchill, Savrola

En una ocasión, Churchill tiró de un empujón a la piscina de la escuela, conocida con el nombre de Ducker, a un compañero muy bajito llamado Leopold Amery. Al darse cuenta de que Amery no tenía su edad, sino que era un estudiante del último curso, el joven Winston se disculpó diciéndole: «Mi padre, que es un gran hombre, es también de corta estatura».

Geralt knew that bonnet and that feather, which were famed from the Buina to the Yaruga, known in manor houses, fortresses, inns, taverns and whorehouses. Particularly whorehouses.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

He was very bold and very imprudent. He was famous for the first and known for the second.

In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere

what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

basilisks, who enjoyed a ferocious reputation for it.

Rumour has it,' Angoulême snapped, 'that your mother only charged her customers four shillings, but no one would give her more than two.

The moment our love or concern for country takes precedence over our love for the people in our country, we are off mission. When saving America diverts energy, focus, and reputation away from saving Americans, we no longer qualify as the ekklesia of Jesus. We're merely political tools. A manipulated voting demographic. A photo op. Again, we lose our elevated position as the conscience of the nation. We give up the moral and ethical high ground.

It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

I mean I was quite proud of Dorothy the way she stood up for my reputation. Because I really think that there is nothing so wonderful as two girls when they stand up for each other and help each other a lot.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But for whatever reason, he's one of the greatest of all time now. You know why? 'Cause he's dead.

I feel like my music has a reputation for being pretty serious or whatnot, but I like having fun.

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.

In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible - there's truth and there's not truth. It's human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

Wherever I went, I became a son-in-law. It was a terrible phase for me. I had to work double hard to get back my identity. Whenever I gave an interview, the first question would invariably be, 'What is it like to be his son-in-law?' Now that question comes somewhere in the middle of the interview. Hopefully, soon, it won't be asked at all.