Quotes about Idols

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Votes: 4

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. Votes: 4

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. Votes: 4

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Votes: 4

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder Votes: 3

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder Votes: 3

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. Votes: 3

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things Votes: 3

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God Votes: 3

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. Votes: 3

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men. Votes: 3

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. Votes: 3

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song. Votes: 3

Everybody is a teenage idol. Votes: 2

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. Votes: 2

I try to reach out to my idols. Votes: 2

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. Votes: 2

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. Votes: 2

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. Votes: 2

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar. Votes: 2

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can. Votes: 2

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us. Votes: 2

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go. Votes: 2

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. Votes: 2

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. Votes: 2

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. Votes: 2

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. Votes: 2

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. Votes: 2

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol. Votes: 2

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. Votes: 2

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character. Votes: 2

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. Votes: 2

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. Votes: 2

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol. Votes: 2

Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord. Votes: 2

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols. Votes: 2

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. Votes: 2

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. Votes: 2

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. Votes: 2

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. Votes: 2

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. Votes: 2

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's. Votes: 2

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity. Votes: 2

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. Votes: 2

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me. Votes: 2

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Votes: 2

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous. Votes: 2

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge. Votes: 2

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. Votes: 2

You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration. Votes: 2

The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised. Votes: 2

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods. Votes: 2

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols. Votes: 2

It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments. Votes: 2

I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful for - was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn't tons of feminist literature floating around. Votes: 2

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. Votes: 2

Dead metaphors make strong idols. Votes: 0

My idols are all older. Votes: 0

Code writers, they are my idols. Votes: 0

A country without idols is nothing. Votes: 0

Even our pets can become idols. Votes: 0

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything. Votes: 0

Work until your idols become your rivals Votes: 0

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. Votes: 0

God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols. Votes: 0

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. Votes: 0

It's great to get to work with your idols. Votes: 0

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no. Votes: 0

It is strange what society will endure from its idols. Votes: 0

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols. Votes: 0

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols. Votes: 0

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. Votes: 0

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing. Votes: 0

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel. Votes: 0

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. Votes: 0

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are. Votes: 0

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols. Votes: 0

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula. Votes: 0

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Votes: 0

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen. Votes: 0

Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols. Votes: 0

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles. Votes: 0

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations. Votes: 0

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything. Votes: 0

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. Votes: 0

In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols. Votes: 0

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. Votes: 0

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. Votes: 0

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Votes: 0

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me. Votes: 0

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself. Votes: 0

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys. Votes: 0

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. Votes: 0

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. Votes: 0

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. Votes: 0

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. Votes: 0

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good. Votes: 0

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. Votes: 0

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love. Votes: 0

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person. Votes: 0

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Votes: 0

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood Votes: 0

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them. Votes: 0

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. Votes: 0

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. Votes: 0

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for? Votes: 0

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise. Votes: 0

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept. Votes: 0

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. Votes: 0

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods. Votes: 0

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. Votes: 0

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols. Votes: 0

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. Votes: 0

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols Votes: 0

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors... Votes: 0

The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without commitment. Votes: 0

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. Votes: 0

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives. Votes: 0

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. Votes: 0

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols. Votes: 0

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. Votes: 0

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives. Votes: 0

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. Votes: 0

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans. Votes: 0

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.. Votes: 0

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! Votes: 0

Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview." Votes: 0

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God. Votes: 0

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".. Votes: 0

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. Votes: 0

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her. Votes: 0

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) Votes: 0

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. Votes: 0

The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams. Votes: 0

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves! Votes: 0

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time. Votes: 0

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols. Votes: 0

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises. Votes: 0

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. Votes: 0

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God! Votes: 0

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. Votes: 0

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place! Votes: 0

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols. Votes: 0

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to. Votes: 0

I think we're at the stage where we're not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols Votes: 0

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing Votes: 0

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. Votes: 0

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. Votes: 0

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news. Votes: 0

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine! Votes: 0

I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way. Votes: 0

In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile. Votes: 0

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols. Votes: 0

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. Votes: 0

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also. Votes: 0

My brothers were my idols. I've always looked up to them and was proud to be their baby sister. I felt like they gave me some cool points, too. Votes: 0

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing! Votes: 0

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor. Votes: 0

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols. Votes: 0

I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy, Votes: 0

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols. Votes: 0

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy! Votes: 0

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much. Votes: 0

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time. Votes: 0

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort, and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish, Votes: 0

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now. Votes: 0

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. Votes: 0

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes. Votes: 0

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. Votes: 0

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. Votes: 0

The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose. Votes: 0

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions. Votes: 0

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. Votes: 0

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater. Votes: 0

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols, they were just doing their jobs. Votes: 0

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols. Votes: 0

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession. Votes: 0

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. Votes: 0

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson. Votes: 0

When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it. Votes: 0

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. Votes: 0

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols." Votes: 0

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us. Votes: 0

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes. Votes: 0

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act. Votes: 0

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act. Votes: 0

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. Votes: 0

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them. Votes: 0

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones. Votes: 0

We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time. Votes: 0

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. Votes: 0