Quotes & Sayings About Popularity Being Overrated

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on. — Travis Bradberry

You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer

If you don't want to have sex, I don't want to talk about our feelings."
He scrubbed his hand through his hair, looking confused. "Well, that's for damn sure the first time a woman's ever said that to me. — Lisa Kleypas

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect ... — Elizabeth Hardwick

The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim. — George Washington

If I die, I am so coming back to haunt you."
"You can even watch me shower. — Jennifer Harlow

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! — Virginia Woolf

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George

My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He'd — Stephen Graham Jones

Someone can only fade away if there's nothing left for them. But there's me and you. We'll always be something strong enough to keep you going. — Calia Read

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America. — Jon Anderson