Top 1200 Gods And Monsters Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

We have to look at white supremacists differently, not as monsters but as broken men and women who are capable of doing monstrous things. I am proof that people can change. We have to be careful not to treat these folks as enemies who can't be saved. If we do that, we'll create more of them.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Once you come to America, you're fighting top fighters. They're not going to let you get away with the guys you're fighting in England: you're going to have to fight constant monsters.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

Each and every being has an innate ability to heal as a gift from the gods.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

'Are you guys busy?' Juniper asked. 'Well,' I said, 'we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.' 'We're not busy,' Annabeth said.

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

A lot of people think I must be like Vince Noir. He's a bit like a child. He doesn't have any malice. He's even friendly to monsters. I am like that, I guess. I talk to anyone.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.