Idoles Quotes & Sayings

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality. — Pablo Picasso

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. — Adair Turner

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride. — Max Anders

Love in all its incantations, promises made with flesh and bone and word and intent. — Kim Holden

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) — Gustave Flaubert

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. — Ismail Kadare

In light of religious teachings on sex, unrestricted people often feel they are fundamentally flawed. They are sinful and rebellious against god for having strong urges that go against the church's teachings. If the religious belief is deep enough, a person will not be able to look at his behavior rationally. The result can be a destructive cycle beginning with some religiously prohibited sexual behavior followed by repentance and prayer for a few weeks. Soon biological urges surface again, and he goes back to the behavior, followed by repentance once more. The process keeps him focused on guilt, not on rational ways to enjoy and express sexuality. Every time he goes through the cycle, it makes him feel less worthwhile. At the same time, the only way he can get relief is by going back to his religion. — Darrel Ray

The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him. — Billy Graham

"Well
I don't know
the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."
— Tom Upton

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America. — John Edwards

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history. — Alix Kates Shulman

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding ... — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers. — H.W. Brands