Reputation Quotes - Page 37

• Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.

  Cat Stevens

  Character, Doubt, Trying

  The Guardian, March 29, 2005.

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• Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

  Voltaire

  Character, Men, Ends

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• I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Plot, Demise, Way

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.

  Shane Warne

  Past, Thinking, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Bigs, Bureaucracy

  "JACK WELCH: 'If You Have A Reputation As A Big, Stiff Bureaucracy, You're Stuck'"by Kim Bhasin, www.businessinsider.com. February 27, 2012.

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• I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

  Fred Wilson

  Identity, Intersections

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• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Bob Woodward

  Wisdom, People, Stories

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• if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Blood, Hands

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Gone, Stories

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• How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Winning, Paper

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• Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Character

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• I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, People, World

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• kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupidity, Causes, Destruction

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• The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Night, Judging

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.43, Penguin

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• A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Hands, Two

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• Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

  Thomas Merton

  Wind, Sea, Lucky

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

  David Baldacci

  Mistake, Gone, Comeback

  David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

  Emily Bronte

  Appreciate, Curious, Disposition

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.372, Penguin

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• Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Girl, Suicidal, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

  Walter Scott

  Birthday, Names, Glorious Life

  Sir Walter Scott (1820). “Waverly Novels: The antiquary. The black dwarf. Old mortality”, p.608

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• My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

  Leonard Cohen

  Night, Men, Laughing

  "Crazy for Love". Book by Leonard Cohen, www.nytimes.com. 2006.

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us do the best we can and cultivate a reputation for excellence in all that we do. Let us set our minds and bodies to the glorious opportunity for work that each new day presents.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Opportunity, New Day, Anxiety

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• Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Cassandra Clare

  May, Scandal, Sides

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• If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Kindness, Names, Affection

  Amy Carmichael (2016). “If: Devotional Edition”, p.32, Aneko Press

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