Saint Augustine Quotes

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

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• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Beats

• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Imagination

• There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Happen
  • Dialogue

• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  

  M. Ward
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Singing

• First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • You
  • First
  • Intelligence

• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Conflict
  • Pursuit

• China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • China

• As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Trust
  • Doubt
  • Horse

• I'm a very boring person.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Person
  • Very
  • Boring

• My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Voice

• I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • World
  • Guy
  • Focus

• There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I can't think of any more serious delusion than that.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Real
  • Ideal
  • Sting

• In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Create
  • Evolution
  • Kingdom

• I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Media
  • Dealing
  • Effective

• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Energy
  • Angry
  • Used

• Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Used
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  • Idolatry