You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

My reputation precedes me now.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I figure I’ll be champ for about ten years and then I’ll let my brother take over – like the Kennedys down in Washington.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

There is nothing so stable as change.

A promise must never be broken.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.