“ When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. ”
- Richard Henry Tawney- Copy
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“ What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes — ah, they have all the necessary leisure. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way pleases them. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really... "Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ Since Earth-One is where the Flash existed, and Earth-Two had the other super heroes, how about our Earth? There are no super-heroes. ”
- Julius Schwartz- Copy
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“ It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. ”
- Benjamin Mays- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. ”
- Delphine de Girardin- Copy
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“ One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to… ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
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“ Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ”
- Matt Dillon- Copy
- 683
“ Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
- 217
“ We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. ”
- Kevin Bacon- Copy
- 1K
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