Top 1200 Gods Will Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

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.

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

He will come with a mouth full of forevers and skin as sweet as spring time. He will kiss the places that hurt and will tell you the scars are beautiful. He will cover every inch of you in words he's learned and dress you in the colors of every season and he will not be the one. He will feel like a hurricane and you'll wonder how you will ever recover and rebuild. But you will. You always will. And you'll realize he is not the one.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

A narcissist society, in which each person is busy looking out for number one, can build neither brotherhood nor community. Aren't we glad in this Easter season and in all seasons that Jesus did not selfishly look out for number one? No wonder we have been told, 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' and this includes self-worship! (Ex. 20:3; emphasis added). One way or another, the grossly selfish will finally be shattered, whimpering, against the jagged, concrete consequences of their selfishness.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'