Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

George Eastman

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

Fisher Ames

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

Frank Deford

Gamesmanship has come to replace sportsmanship all too often,

Friedrich Nietzsche

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Jerry McNerney

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Graeme Murphy

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

James Purnell

I didn't understand how that worked before, but I do now. I now know who to report to and how to get my stuff done.

J. I. Packer

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Paul Otellini

Steve, I wanted to report that Intel's ready.

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Mariano Rivera

You always want to represent your country, but I wouldn't be ready.

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

We can replace the car, we can't replace you.

Jesse Ventura

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Chris Redfern

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

Gerrit Smith

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Posterity is always just.

Jeremy Bentham

Reputation is the road to power

Harold Rosenberg

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

Jake Tapper

Pennsylvania is a state that jasn't gone Republican since 1988.

Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Frank Zappa

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

Fidel Castro

For now, ... get me a New York Times reporter up here.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

If it works, and I know it will, we need to look at how to replicate it elsewhere.