I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.
I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to be able to be part of this restaurant with an amazing reputation, but not a good one for food at the time. I made it clear that if I was coming to Le Cirque it was going to change.
O reputation! dearer far than life.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers -. 300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.
In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.
Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
