Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
~By Angela Carter ~
Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
~By Whitley Strieber ~
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
~By Lao Tzu ~
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
~By Xenophanes ~
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
~By Aristotle ~
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Fear created the first gods in the world.
~By Caecilius Statius ~
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
~By Aeschylus ~
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
~By Terry Pratchett ~
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
~By Virgil ~
The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
We are making gods out of global celebrities.
~By Elizabeth Joan Smith ~
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
~By William Shakespeare ~
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
~By Sophocles ~
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
~By William Shakespeare ~
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
~By Herodotus ~
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
~By Virgil ~
Gods always love the people who make em.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
~By Aeschylus ~
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
~By Ken Hensley ~
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
~By Henry Timrod ~
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
~By David Bowie ~
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
~By Plato ~
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
~By Phyllis Gotlieb ~
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
~By Alexander Pope ~
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
~By Mika Waltari ~
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
~By Dan Brown ~
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
~By Jean Racine ~
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
~By Novalis ~
Those whom the gods love grow young.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
~By Diogenes ~
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
~By Bill Gates ~
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
~By Tanith Lee ~
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
~By Ovid ~
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
~By Theodor Reik ~
The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
~By Frank Shorter ~
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
~By Aristophanes ~
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
~By Sophocles ~
As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
~By Protagoras ~
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
~By John Knox ~
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
~By Robert Collier ~
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
~By David Antin ~
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
~By Aeschylus ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
~By Edmund Halley ~
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
~By Themistocles ~
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
~By Rick Springfield ~
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~By Confucius ~
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
~By Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
~By Bodhidharma ~
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
~By Albert Camus ~
Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
~By Germanicus ~
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
~By Aristotle ~
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
~By Plotinus ~
Whom the gods love dies young.
~By Menander ~
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
The gods too are fond of a joke.
~By Aristotle ~
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