Quotes About Iconoclast

#1. My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?..

C.S. Lewis

#2. Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

#3. The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He - or she - is the new mainstream.

Richard Florida

#4. emotion. I was a monument to our theft. I was an iconoclast.

Mike Avitabile

#5. There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark

Herbert Lindenberger

#6. The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#7. The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

Walter Lippmann

#8. Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

Sheila Bender

#9. Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.

Ian Hacking

#10. There may be room in government service for the altruist and the iconoclast, but I have yet to see one who was not treated as an oddity at best and at worst an object of suspicion and fear.

James Lee Burke

#11. This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

Mary McCarthy

#12. Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

John Carroll

#13. We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast

Marilynne Robinson

#14. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

Clarence Darrow

#15. All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

C.S. Lewis

#16. For the dead travel fast.

Bram Stoker

#17. The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

Lindsey Buckingham

#18. You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

Vince Cable

#19. Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Edgar Cayce

#20. Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity ... edit one more time!

C.K. Webb

#21. Some sacrifices aren't worth the cost. Even, or perhaps most especially, those made out of love.

Leslye Walton

#22. Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

Cassandra Duffy

#23. Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Italo Svevo

#24. We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to eat with family. There is usually a sporting event or two to watch!

Josie Bissett

#25. I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security
a safeness in our life with Christ.

Jill Briscoe

#26. Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

#27. It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Roger Ebert

#28. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Shan Sa

#29. a part share in a wire worm

Edmund Gurney