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

• Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Money
  • Enemy
  • Faults

• 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
  • Addition

• 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

• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Faults

• 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

• 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’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Speak
  • Listen
  • Faults

• Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Way
  • Answers
  • Skins

• All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Like

• 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