A Quote by James Atlas
A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.
Quote Topics
Quote Author
Related Quotes
The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.
Besides having an audience, the most important currency for any leader is his or her reputation. And having a reputation for over-delivering on what's expected of you should give your visitors, subscribers and customers more reason to spend their money with you and refer their friends.
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field.
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
Related Authors
Al Goldstein Quotes
American
Publisher
Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes
American
Publisher
Felix Dennis Quotes
British
Publisher
Hugh Hefner Quotes
American
Publisher
Jann Wenner Quotes
American
Publisher
Jeffrey Tucker Quotes
American
Publisher
Jonathan Galassi Quotes
American
Publisher
Joseph Pulitzer Quotes
American
Publisher
Katharine Weymouth Quotes
American
Publisher
Larry Flynt Quotes
American
Publisher
Malcolm Forbes Quotes
American
Publisher
Marcus Garvey Quotes
Jamaican
Publisher
Mortimer Zuckerman Quotes
Canadian
Publisher
Porter Stansberry Quotes
American
Publisher
Rupert Murdoch Quotes
American
Publisher
William Randolph Hearst Quotes
American
Publisher