Popularity Quotes - Page 13

• I think what it is is do not depend on the president to get you over the line. Do not depend on the fundraising, on the turnout operation, the president's own popularity, because it's not going to work.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Fundraising, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't rely on the president to win you the race. You can have the president help you. Use the popularity that he has. That may get you an ear into some of these voters, but he isn't going to close the deal.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Winning, Race, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

  D. L. Hughley

  Thinking, Contests, Mccain

  "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", January 17, 2008.

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• Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

  L. Neil Smith

  Civilization, Doe, Reason

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

  Connie Willis

  Race, Barbie, Fads

  Connie Willis (1997). “Bellwether”, Spectra

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• It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

  Eric Weiner

  Two, Facts, Human Nature

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• Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem.

  Ellen Willis

  Home, College, Social Values

  "The Pernicious Concept of 'Balance'". "The Chronicle of Higher Education", September 9, 2005.

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• Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Idols, People

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• I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?

  Roger Moore

  Winning, Trying, Hollywood

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• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Believe, Differences

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• As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

  Vince McMahon

  Believe, I Believe, Sustaining

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• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Literature

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• Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

  Ted Cruz

  Integrity, What Matters, Principles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Children, Hate

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

  Mike Murdock

  People, Like You, Like Yourself

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from May 15, 2014

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• It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.

  Michelle Malkin

  Zero, Ideas, Diversity

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• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  Lois Wyse

  Winning, Way, Failing

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• Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

  William Hazlitt

  Envy, Justice, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1823). “Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims”, p.4

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• Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

  William Hazlitt

  Distance, Men, Numbers

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.38

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• I will not change just to court popularity.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Court

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

  Juvenal

  Vices

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• what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wise, Needs

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

  Francis Quarles

  Names, Oil, Lamps

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Numbers, Astrology, People

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