Gods Quotes

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang

Lives, Cooks, Lap

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Ezra Pound

Work, Live, Violence

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Themistocles

Two, Persuasion, Compulsion

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert Greene

Men, Times, Fall

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Lukas Foss

Work, Together, Play

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman

Best, Whether, Ethics

I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
Dane Cook

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.
Leon Battista Alberti

Living, Ourselves, Within

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell

Life, Time, End

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Time, Good, God

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
Empedocles

Happy, Thoughts, Dark

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.
Wilbur Smith

Good, Death, Book

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Whitley Strieber

Time, God, Someone

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine

Misery, Thank, Hopes

Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius

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

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

God, Mother, Father

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes

Help, Friends, Himself

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
Stanley Kunitz

Wisdom, Waiting, Mind

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Anita Brookner

Good, Win, Gift

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

Women, Men, Woman

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham

Human, Making, Turn

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham

Human, Making, Turn

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.
Mike Mills

Respect, Everything, Happen

The weather is perfect. The gods are shining on us.
Frank Shorter

Perfect, Weather, Shining

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Laurence Olivier

Away, Act, Actor

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
Brendan Fraser

Work, Smart, Enough

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'
Bill Condon

Movies, Job, Everything

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
David Antin

May, Language, Industry

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Angela Carter

Life, Mother, Emotional

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