Reputability Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally. — Rose McGowan

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it. — Sue Grafton

English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection. — Thorstein Veblen

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour. — Thorstein Veblen

Nothing I've ever had feels as right as you. — Nyrae Dawn

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment. — Mary Balogh

Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory. — J.R. Miller

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons) — Elisabeth Badinter