Best 234 quotes in «popularity quotes» category

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey.

[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything. Man lived on the planet — [placing his fingers an inch apart], this is 5000 years of semi-recorded history. And God and the Bible, that came in somewhere around the middle, maybe 2000. This is the last 2000, this is what we're about to celebrate [indicating about an 1/8th of an inch with his fingers]. Now, humans, in some shape or form, have been on the earth for three million years [pointing across the room to indicate the distance]. So, all this time, from there [gesturing toward the other side of the room], to here [indicating the 1/8th of an inch], there was no God, there was no story, there was no myth and people lived on this planet and they wandered and they gathered and they did all these things. The planet was never threatened. How did they survive for all this time without this belief in God? I'd like to ask this to someone who knows about Christianity and maybe you do. That just seems funny to me.

When famous singer is following your account, When profesional photographers, CEOs, authors, and attorneys, added you into their circle, When a popular model added you as their friend, When a famous Korean actor asked you for adding him into your circle...... You're feeling wow and amazed, but the truth is you need your real friends

When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it... Though pretty soon I realized... popular girls were just like spam... they promised a lot, but only thing they had and could use were their well-built bodies and ability to apply make-up here and there. Mostly they were deceptive and had no senses... they had no idea about friendship, kindness and beauty as it is. Friendship for them was not something more than poor relations, sort of like in "God Father". Love for them was not something bigger than sex. Kindness for them was to have a kitty or a dog (which was already very rare case)... And beauty for them was... well, you can imagine. Concentrated selfishness

Why do half the people I meet try to hit me with something? Yeah, yeah, I know, you don't even have to say it. "Because, the other half don't know me that well yet.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

You got pretty popular for a while there.' 'For about forty-eight hours,' I said. 'Just long enough to figure out that I don't want to be popular.

You have fun at the cool kids table. I prefer my spot over here with the real people.

Yoh: Being popular with guys isn't something you can just stitch together! Haruna: What?! I Can't?! Yoh: OF COURSE NOT! Yoh: Mixing coke, tea and orange juice would taste nasty, right?! That's exactly what you're doing!

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.

You’d be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.

You don't become a star the moment you become famous, you become a star the moment love illuminates your soul.

You don't become a star the day you become famous, you become a star the day you let your light do all the talking.

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

Younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Horse racing is waning in popularity.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

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

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.