Washington Allston Quotes

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston

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• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• Everybody is a teenage idol.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Teen
  • Everybody
  • Idol

• I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'

  

  Tamala Jones
  • True
  • Girl
  • Favorite

• People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Me
  • Around

• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Idol

• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wife
  • Drinking
  • Faults

• I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Money
  • Age
  • Cold

• if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Kids
  • Soccer
  • Faults

• I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Christian
  • Faults
  • Beads

• We are very excited to have John join our growing team. In addition to being a great strategist, he brings experience in targeting sophisticated technology at specific market segments, and clearly communicating the value of that technology to each segment.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Experience
  • Excited
  • Brings

• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Vain
  • Charge

• Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Faithfulness
  • No Friends

• The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

  

  Confucius
  • Real
  • Faults
  • Amend

• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  

  Confucius
  • Fear
  • Faults
  • Abandon

• I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

  

  Lord Byron
  • I Think
  • Reputation
  • Faults

• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  

  William Feather
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Faults

• People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Faults
  • Impatient

• I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Knowledge
  • Story
  • Addition

• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Feel
  • Sweet
  • Figure

• I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • No Doubt
  • Addition
  • Channels

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Free
  • Inspired

• The death penalty is reserved for people who do not.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • People
  • Death
  • Reserved

• Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Faults
  • Idol
  • Addition