Popularity Quotes

• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  

  George Will
  • Democracy
  • Accepting
  • Popularity

• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  

  Moshe Safdie
  • Thinking
  • Public
  • Response

• The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Character
  • Car
  • Popularity

• Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Children
  • Income
  • Satisfy

• I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

  

  Jonah Hill
  • Experience
  • Issues
  • Popularity

• We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Brain
  • Worry
  • Matter

• Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Ideas
  • Needs
  • Stories

• I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Musicians

• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

  

  Jonathan Mayhew
  • Patriotism
  • Popularity
  • Disguise

• Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Care

• 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
  • Men
  • Fame
  • Nation

• It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Greatness
  • Competitive
  • Popularity

• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Character
  • Today
  • Wisdom

• Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Greatness
  • Fame
  • Popularity

• Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Party
  • Popularity

• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Popularity

• The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Work
  • Poverty
  • England

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