Quotes of Repute - somelinesforyou

“ I don't see where this is a story. Everything Dr. Weir told senators about embryonic stem cell research was true. He just used the wrong video. ”

- Frank Murphy

“ I see my reputation is at stake:My fame is shewdly gor'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A good name is better than precious ointment. ”

- Bible

“ Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. ”

- Phil Rizzuto

“ Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being. ”

- Unknown

“ A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. ”

- Brigham Young

“ No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ To myself alone do I owe my fame. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ A root is a flower that disdains fame. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. ”

- Sidney Madwed

“ I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous. ”

- Anna Kournikova

“ Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. ”

- Bob Marley

“ I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. ”

- Peter Singer

“ Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. ”

- Elizabeth Arden

“ We look at some similar areas in such a completely different way. We're a comedy, we're very contemporary. We're very much about the impact of celebrity and fame on an individual in today's world. ”

- Ron Howard

“ Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made. ”

- Matt Damon

“ Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation; to publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates; and to bear the consequences. ”

- Susan B. Anthony

“ Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet, we confuse them every day. By doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great… ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ”

- Adam Clarke

“ That definitely helps. I think things can get magnified exponentially when you have two celebrities in a situation. Suddenly the interest it's not just like twice the interest, it's four, eight times depending on the celebrity. ”

- Matt Damon

“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”

- Johann Georg Zimmermann

“ Open your mouth and purse cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ”

- Johann Georg Zimmermann

“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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