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.

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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

• Men can make an idol of the Bible.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Bible
  • Idol

• 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

• If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Picture
  • Goal
  • Paint

• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Education
  • Dancing
  • Curriculum

• There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Friends
  • Conversation

• Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.

  

  George Barna
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Gospel

• Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.

  

  Carole Nelson Douglas
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Joke

• 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