#reputation

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#america #answer #any #back #cannot

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ↗

— Liz Smith

#carpe-diem #dreams #goals #reputation #dreams

It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#sex #dreams

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#pride #reputation #wisdom #men

Ces six personnes formaient le fond de la voiture, le côté de la société rentée, sereine et forte, des honnêtes gens autorisés qui ont de la Religion et des Principes. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#pride #reputation #religion

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#began #endowment #few #had #i

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#best #citizen #dangerous #days #fathers

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#being #dance #got #guess #i

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. ↗

— Ingvar Kamprad

#proud #reputation #stingy