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

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller

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

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

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Michael Schudson

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

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

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.
Pedro Almodovar

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
John Boyd Orr

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese

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

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid

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

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker

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.
H. L. Mencken

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Diogenes

Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder