Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Valery

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation.

Pope Francis

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.

Pope Francis

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

Pope Francis

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!

Pia Toscano

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

Samuel Rutherford

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Samuel Rutherford

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Tullian Tchividjian

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Ruzwana Bashir

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of American Idol through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

Gordon Brown

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Jennifer Lawrence

There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

Jennifer Hudson

Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'

Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Jerry Rice

Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Jason Terry

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Hildegard Knef

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

Evgeny Morozov

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

Grimes

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Ezra Levant

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.

Jared Leto

If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.

Mika

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Natalie Cole

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

Nancy Pearcey

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Nancy Pearcey

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.

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.

Honore de Balzac

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Isaac Mizrahi

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

Joseph Addison

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.