Idols Quotes

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.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Family, Great

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya

God, Feelings, Soul

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

Often, Silent, Movie

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna

Work, Dedication, Admire

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.
Simone de Beauvoir

Power, May, Him

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
John Calvin

Mother, Master, Craftsman

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Doug Coupland

Death, Place, Dead

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.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Off, Touch

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

Successful, Character, Someone

Code writers, they are my idols.
will.i.am

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Shirley Manson

Role, Comfort, Model

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

Time, Teen, Stuff

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.
Beth Ditto

Around, Grateful, Growing

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.
Hugh Hefner

Young, Film, Growing

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.
Jan Brewer

Happen, Fact, Three

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
Jon Landau

Rock, Nothing, Old

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.
Jon Landau

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

Yourself, Care, Play

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

Great, Same, Stars

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
Dita Von Teese

Women, Girl, Small

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
Bobby Sherman

Advice, Far, Potential

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
John Shelby Spong

God, Human, Words

My idols are all older.
Kelly Lynch

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.
Meg White

Find, Read, Biggest

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
Meg White

Good, Travel, Cool

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.
Curtis Joseph

Time, Great, Greatest

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.
Imelda Staunton

Good, Makes, Themselves

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Work, Philosophy, Again

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Past, Philosophy, Both

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Past, Philosophy, Both

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