Gods Quotes

When men make gods, there is no God!

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

The gods behold all righteous actions.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

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

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

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

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

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

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

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always love the people who make em.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

Whom the gods love dies young.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.

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

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

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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

Fear created the first gods in the world.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

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