False Idol Quotes

#1. No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

Margaret Cho

#2. That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Neuter discourse is a false idol.

Richard M. Weaver

#4. An illustration that does not complement a story, in the end, will become but a false idol. Since we cannot possibly believe in an absent story, we will naturally begin believing in the picture itself.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Plato

#6. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. What is a false idol? What you think love will get you.

Mari Perron

#8. When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Bridget Moynahan

#9. People in Haiti eat dirt because it gives their starving bodies a false sense of satisfaction. But mud pies don't fill. They merely mask real hunger. [...] I saw the mud pies as a metaphor for the life of any Christian who has ever looked to something or someone other than God for fulfillment.

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#10. I'm probably going to forever be weird.

Swae Lee

#11. We routinely deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens every year whose sole offense is that they overstayed a visa or came without the right paperwork - but people who were involved in crimes against humanity get to stay?

Jodi Picoult

#12. Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical.

Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

#13. There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears.

Edith Wharton

#14. A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

Paula Malcomson

#15. I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of vodka just so they can get a table. It's quite a scene.

Jackie Collins

#16. I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

Zadie Smith

#17. If you do something as simple as 15-minute ice baths three days a week, and you time those baths properly, you can significantly multiply your fat loss.

Timothy Ferriss

#18. One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Shirley Maclaine

#19. The prosperity achieved through slavery had a way of blinding men's hearts to the evil of their own hands.

Ian Tregillis

#20. Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

Toks Olagundoye

#21. A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

Liz Sheridan

#22. There are people you wont miss, but wont forget either. Those people are unique

Ishak Zaaimia

#23. it was suddenly obvious to me, that in our household, it was more acceptable to be black and morbidly obese, if only for a night, than be a boy in a dress.

Culver Connor McCall

#24. In the Year 2000 due to the declining number of champions in the world, Wheaties will change its slogan to 'Breakfast of Sexual Deviants.

Conan O'Brien