Quotes About Unpopularity

#1. We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. the unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision. My

James MacDonald

#4. Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Stella Benson

#5. Tip: Unpopularity is a state of mind. Feel nerdy. Think uncool thoughts. It also helps to use the word "vaginal" a lot.

Jennifer Ziegler

#6. Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

Arthur Wallis

#7. In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity
or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity
by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

A. N. Wilson

#8. Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

Charlie Munger

#9. The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity.

Edward Jenks

#10. There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Sinclair Lewis

#11. The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God's grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need.

Billy Graham

#13. I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

Tony Blair

#14. It's tough to be a Christian in our world. We need to be willing to take on Jesus' unpopularity and the scorn that is often heaped on Him.

Billy Graham

#15. How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#16. All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Pericles

#17. In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

Nicky Gumbel

#18. It seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten.

Jonathan Franzen

#19. Unpopularity is my thing. I revel in it.

Brynna Gabrielson

#20. Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.

Mark Simpson

#21. American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil,

Ahmed Chalabi

#22. A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#23. I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

Edwin Moses

#24. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Edith Wharton

#25. There was still a question in her eyes
one that she did not like to put into words.

Simone De Beauvoir

#26. Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed.

Jeff Zentner

#27. My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He'd

Stephen Graham Jones

#28. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#29. Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Stevie Smith

#30. To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.

Jennifer Ziegler

#31. She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

Catherynne M Valente

#32. The person who is least dependent on the outcome of the relationship will automatically draw the other person in.

Sherry Argov