Gods Quotes

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Gods always love the people who make em.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

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

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.

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.'

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

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

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

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

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

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

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

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

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.

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

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

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.

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

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.