200 Gods Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Hopes Misery Thank Gods

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

Science Made Men Before Worthy Gods Being Us Even

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar. John Rocco

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods. Justin Cartwright

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. Kate Chopin

Matter Rare Painting Pleasure Possessions Valued Had He Bought Contemplating Household Because Genuine Were His Greatly Chiefly Gods Lace After Curtain Placed Derived Among

I see myself as a spiritual person, but I don't think anyone should claim proof of a god. No one can prove it. That's why I don't claim to know whether there are one, many or no gods. King Diamond

God Myself Spiritual Think Claim See Proof Spiritual Person No-One Know Prove Person Gods Anyone Whether Should Many Why

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places. Lactantius

God Great Will Power Matters Nothing Else Say Those Admit Proper Divided Great Power Discuss Gods Which Places Themselves Who Deem Many Therefore Functions Among

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. Leon Bourgeois

Religion Law Protection Mercy First Other Those Recognized Members Out Evolved Neither Religious Followed Laws Only Doctrines Equals Practiced Were Nor Cults Gods Same Who Appeared

I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice. Leonora Carrington

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

Food Our Our Lives Gods Lap Cooks Lives

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm. Margaret Wertheim

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson

God Men He Were Gods Might

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods. Michael Hirst

History You Culture Christian See About Could Write Hostile Written Excited Read Because Understand Witnesses Got Did Gods Loved Interested Them Realize Then Much Really Monks

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. Michio Kaku

Life Future Will Power Think Too Our Flying Able Objects Horse Perfect Could Lead Had Mythology Venus Around Timeless Gods Move Grandkids Modify Body Lives Zeus

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

We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do. Miranda July

Animals Nothing Living Too Enough Some Perfect Unsatisfied Had Had Enough Feel Like Because Always Rocks Itchy Trying Gods Just Hard Lettuce Things Here Humans

During their tenure, the elected representatives of the people walk with the gods. And it is only when an election is announced that they realise it is the people in their constituencies, with whom they have not really bothered to keep in touch, who will decide their fate. N. Bhaskara Rao

People Fate Walk Election Will Touch Only Bothered Tenure Announced Gods Representatives Decide Realise Elected Really Who Keep Whom

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