#unpopular

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#catfish #electric #i #i am #pool

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#incumbents #unpopular

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#did #doubt #i #i am #just

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

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#i think #most #popular #prefer #than

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #approach #best #better #blatant

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#because #civilization #democracy #him #imprison

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#advocate #am #floor #how #i

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#causes #forsaken #home #impossible #lost