Popularity Quotes · Page 19

“Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity…

— Bryant McGill

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

— Paul Bettany

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

— Carrie Lam

“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the…

— Jon Meacham

“If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity…

— John Adams

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

— Martha Stewart

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public…

— Thomas Campbell

What mattered to me was that I didn't compromise my soul in order to try to achieve a kind of popularity. The…

— George W. Bush

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way…

— Susan Sontag

I was never a very popular one I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series…

— Anonymous

Wanting to be popular does not make any difference to anyone else. What makes you special is making a difference in someone's…

— Romel Elien

Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will…

— Francis Quarles

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts…

— Moshe Safdie

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get…

— Reba McEntire

“It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on…

— Washington Irving

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional…

— George Will

Such was his popularity that a film would sell only in his name. People would watch a particular film because it had…

— Binnu Dhillon

Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity,…

— Nathan Myhrvold

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end…

— Charles James

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his…

— William Butler Yeats

“He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…”

— Margaret Oliphant

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to…

— Jerry Lawler

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the…

— Nelson Mandela

Popularity doesn't mean anything when your surrounded by fake friends who can care less about who you are in the inside, but…

— Blondie

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others…

— Nelson Mandela

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

— John Bytheway

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will…

— George Savile

People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps…

— Jay Roach

Having a bunch of friends means nothing. It's the ones who are always there for you that count. That's way more special…

— Susane Colasanti

I can't explain my popularity. I suppose I'm just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of…

— Eddie the Eagle

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

— John Ruskin

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really…

— Danny Strong

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

— Brigitte Bardot

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

— Robert Gottlieb

Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

— Mia Wasikowska

Popularity matters a lot, as at the end of the day, the love of your audiences can make you win.

— Rithvik Dhanjani

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

— Karol Newlin

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

— Washington Allston

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”

— Ken Follett