Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. — Heinrich Mann
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them. — Queen Rania of Jordan
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. — Dusty Springfield
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. — Orson Welles
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS. — Jenny Holzer
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. — William Penn
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. — Julius Erving
Short Popularity Quotes
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. — Shimon Peres
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements — Audrey Hepburn
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. — Charles Kuralt
You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image. — LeCrae
Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. — George Watsky
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker
May the Force be with you. — George Lucas
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell
Popularity Image Quotes
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. — Howard Cosell
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. — T. D. Jakes
Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
It's Not About Popularity Quotes
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title — Robin Sharma
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. — Steven Spielberg
The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating. — Jerzy Kosinski
Life is a giant popularity contest
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.' — David McCullough
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it! — Gary Allan
It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. — Cory Booker
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing. — John Gimlette
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district. — Anthony Weiner
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. — Robin S. Sharma
Being Popular Quotes
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. — Marie Antoinette
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless. — Whitney M. Young
Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool. — Samuel L. Jackson
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors. — Chamath Palihapitiya
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be. — Waylon Jennings
Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground — Demi Lovato
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need. — John Henry Newman
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade
Popular Song Quotes
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind. — Michel Legrand
Blue moon you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own. — Lorenz Hart
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me. — Freddie Mercury
You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by. — Herman Hupfeld
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see? — Bob Dylan
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. — Keith Richards
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell
Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone. — Celine Dion
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer
Popular Culture Quotes
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it. — Jimmy Carter
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. — Fredric Jameson
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. — Ismail Merchant
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something. — Kim Gordon
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. — Paul Thomas Anderson
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. — John Podhoretz
The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. — Jac Holzman
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. — Daniel H. Wilson
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks
Very Popular Quotes
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. — Dave Barry
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains. — Ambrose Bierce
Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian. — Duke Ellington
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time. — Xi Jinping
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. — Branford Marsalis
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. — Zaha Hadid
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature. — Charles Colson
I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa. — Britney Spears
Popular Music Quotes
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? — Lara St. John
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. — Bill Bryson
Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me. — Elton John
The world's most famous and popular language is music. — PSY
Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. — Scott Weiland
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly. — Mick Jagger
Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music. — Skitch Henderson
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. — Jay-Z
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. — Miranda Lambert
Popular Opinion Quotes
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney
When people say they don't like something, but they can't stop talking about it, you know it's good. — Changpeng Zhao
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt
Investment success, position, uncomfortable, popular opinion — Howard Marks
Contrary to popular opinion, listening is not a passive activity. It is the most active thing you can do. — Chris Voss
The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. — George Gaylord Simpson
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. — Alexander Hamilton
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. — Marco Rubio
Contrary To Popular Belief Quotes
Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising. — Roy H. Williams
Contrary to popular belief, we are not doomed. This is statistically the best time to be alive, ever. — Peter Diamandis
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. — Hermione Gingold
Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur. — Julie Andrews
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow which is not to say that I'm not open-minded about sex. — Scarlett Johansson
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days. — Jack Kerouac
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. — Emma Thompson
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans. — Rachel Held Evans
Leadership Popularity Quotes
The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price. — Eugene Habecker
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. — Gerry Adams
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. — Jean-Claude Killy
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound. — Henry Blodget
I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities. — Blanche Wiesen Cook
Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership. — Rachel Maddow
It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you. — Ira Carmen
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership. — Robert Dallek
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility. — David Brooks
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. — Carl Jung
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates. — Benjamin Franklin
Information is Power. Think For Yourself. CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population. Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world. — Timothy Leary
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. — Spencer W. Kimball
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men. — Alexander Hamilton
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. — Horace Greeley
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. — Harry Stack Sullivan
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read. — Zuzana Licko
Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires. — Anjem Choudary
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving — E. Urner Goodman
My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God." — Kim Il-sung
When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money. — Kim Dotcom
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is! — Leonard Ravenhill
We get more fan mail from India than from America, the U.K., Australia, and Italy combined. It's unbelievable. — James Murray
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. — Diane Watson
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