Gods Quotes

Gods always love the people who make em.
Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

Another, Fair, Ourselves

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau

Known, Mystery, Above

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
Democritus

Good, Men, Give

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn

Vote, Candidates, Intended

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Plautus

Love, Health, Young

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

Men, Science, Made

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.
Jeanne Moreau

Beautiful, May, Why

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.
Neil Gaiman

Long, Words, American

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
Robert Anton Wilson

God, Become, Eventually

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
Maurice Sendak

Life, Through, Wonderful

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.
Dan Brown

Women, Power, Today

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
Rick Springfield

Special, Happens, Timing

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.
Robert Collier

Knowledge, Human, Through

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Aristophanes

Argument, Proof, Surely

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

Humor, Nothing, Off

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, Liar, Everything

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.
John Knox

Heart, Jesus, Place

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer

May, Hero, Vision

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

Parents, Wish, Guilt

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch

Art, Human, Soul

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

Success, Great, Jealous

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

Whatever, Rest, Greater

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo

Life, God, Mind

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Lillian Hellman

End, Problems, Write

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly

Wish, Call, Destroy

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