Quotes and Sayings About Idols
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As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
-- Aamir Khan -
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
-- Adam Lambert -
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
-- Adam Lambert -
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.
-- Adrian Rogers -
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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.
-- AJ Lee -
Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...
-- Alan Watts -
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'
-- Amber Riley -
Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? they have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. [...] If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.
-- Andres Iniesta -
I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
-- Andy Lau -
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!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
-- Arthur Eddington -
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
-- Ayrton Senna -
It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
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.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
-- Baroness Orczy -
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
-- Barry Manilow -
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
-- Barry Manilow
