Top 100 Quotes About Fad
#1. The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.
Lauren Willig
#2. Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!
Betsy Beers
#3. Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
Daphne Koller
#4. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.
Paul Samuelson
#5. For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.
John Ridley
#6. Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an exploration of history, nutrition, the human diet, and, most important, our health.
Liz Wolfe
#7. Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. But of course, all of this is just a silly fad, and when you add an "e" to fad, you get fade. And I predict this fad will fade.
Andrew Clements
#9. It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
Tupac Shakur
#10. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.
William George Jordan
#11. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.
David Lynch
#12. HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.
Alice Walker
#13. Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.
Jeff Beck
#14. Take your time. Some of these fad diets and quick fixes, they might be quick, but you're going to crash and burn.
Julianne Hough
#15. Bitcoins are not an investment. They are an investment fad that someday could be a real digital currency, but if they continue to behave as they have, they will instead be nothing.
Kurt Eichenwald
#16. Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.
Bridget Christie
#17. It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
Matthew Stewart
#18. I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.
Colin Trevorrow
#20. One of the biggest misconceptions is that carbs are bad. It's a fad right now. Full disclosure: I'm sponsored by Barilla. But I've always been free about saying I love carbs, including pasta, in moderation.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#21. Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.
Ryan Holmes
#22. Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.
Mary Roach
#24. Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#26. If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that they're tired of a genre (zombies) because it's only a fad, I'd be rich. #DeadRising
Ace Antonio Hall
#27. The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates
#28. When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.
Mary Travers
#29. The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
L. Ron Hubbard
#30. Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.
Conway Twitty
#31. I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#32. While the Bible is to be applied to the times, it is not to be subservient to the times. Thus unity across economic, cultural, and ethnic lines should be proclaimed not because it is the latest fad but rather because it is the clear teaching of the eternal Word of God.
James Cone
#33. I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate.
Alyssa Sutherland
#34. The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.
Philip Reeve
#35. For the most part the regular profession has either ignored or else denounced fasting. Fasting is a fad or it is quackery. They do not study it, do not employ it and do not endorse it. On the contrary, they declare that the sick must eat to keep up their strength.
Herbert M. Shelton
#36. Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
Howard Rheingold
#37. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.
Dinah Shore
#38. The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order ... Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.
Wallace Thurman
#39. It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.
T.F. Hodge
#40. The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.
Evan Williams
#41. Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
Mick Jagger
#42. The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.
Skylar Astin
#43. The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.
David Lloyd George
#44. Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.
Marla Gibbs
#45. It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Herman Hesse
#46. Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
Alfred Stieglitz
#47. Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg
#48. I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
Larry Niven
#49. When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: 'Who is doing it?' Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.
Peter York
#50. My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
Sean Bean
#51. Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now.
Bob Hope
#52. Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
Connie Sellecca
#53. One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.
Edward Snowden
#55. The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different' ... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
Gary Holland
#56. If a public groundswell occurs without altering people's attitudes or shifting the cultural dialogue at least slightly, then it's not a movement - it's just a fad.
Scott Goodson
#57. The internet is just a passing fad.
Bill Gates
#58. I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
Malaika Arora Khan
#59. Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.
Jerry O'Connell
#61. Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.
L. William Seidman
#62. The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.
Steve Stockman
#63. At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.
Sumner Redstone
#64. The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
Portia De Rossi
#65. I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.
Robert Sheckley
#66. I think that there was a fad where everyone said, 'I want you to create a signature step for my artist.' The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?
Laurieann Gibson
#67. There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
A.E. Samaan
#68. While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.
Daphne Oz
#69. I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
Ciaran Hinds
#70. We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
Adrienne Rich
#71. A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
Ani DiFranco
#72. I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.
Janeane Garofalo
#73. Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay
#74. The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
Marc Andreesen
#75. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.
John Hagee
#76. I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.
Kathleen Madigan
#77. In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.
Mondo Frazier
#78. It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice ... Restorative justice is a fad.
Douglas Carswell
#79. I was happy when we were eventually fired, because I was convinced this Internet thing was a passing fad. This lack of technological foresight is why I am an actor.
Amy Poehler
#80. Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
#81. Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
A.E. Samaan
#82. I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.
Dinah Shore
#83. The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.
Nathan Pritikin
#84. You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
Sean Parker
#85. Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'
James Coburn
#86. As Senator Barbara Mikulski pointed out, We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year.
Gloria Steinem
#88. The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.
Urvashi Vaid
#89. I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.
Ethan Hawke
#90. I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life.
Matthew Hussey
#91. I would put so much hope in each new fad diet, believing that this would be the magical fix and so I wouldn't pay attention to how it actually made my body feel.
Kristina Rose
#92. I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.
Norbert Reithofer
#93. Doing something really profound and personal is bigger than a fad.
It's not some passing fancy.
It's always number one.
Chris Rock
#94. None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.
Kate Winslet
#95. The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
Charlie Chaplin
#96. The solution to losing weight is a whole foods, plant-based diet, coupled with a reasonable amount of exercise. It is a long-term lifestyle change, rather than a quick-fix fad, and it can provide sustained weight loss while minimizing risk of chronic disease.
T. Colin Campbell
#97. The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.
Larry Eskridge
#98. Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.
Henry Petroski
#99. If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
Barry Commoner
#100. Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
Shelby Steele
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