Top 1200 Small Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

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.

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

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

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

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

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

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

I'm sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I'm on that list. I'm a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

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

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

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

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

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

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

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

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

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

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

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

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

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

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

My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.

There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.

I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends and people I know. I am writing for that small group. They are not necessarily going to be able to read it, but that's what I have in mind when I write.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

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

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

The beautiful thing about 'American Gods' is that it's very simple at its core.

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

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.

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