Quotes About Gods

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So the gods pulled alternately on the rope of this violent and evenly balanced battle, to make it taut over the two sides. The rope was indestructible and no one could break it; but it broke many men.

Hera told the tireless sun, to return, though unwillingly, to Ocean's stream.

Beware, Diomedês! Forbear, Diomedês! Do not try to put yourself on a level with the gods; that is too high for a man's ambition. The immortal gods are one race, men that walk upon the earth are another.

I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune once and a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence, stalking all on my father and my brothers. Look at me now, And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life, just take in peace what gifts the gods will send.

All running gear secure in the swift black craft, they set up bowls and brimmed them high with wine and poured libations out to the everlasting gods who never die—to Athena first of all, the daughter of Zeus with flashing sea-gray eyes— and the ship went plunging all night long and through the dawn.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

You stupid food! -Athene to Ares

Ares] you shifty hypocrite, don't come whining to me. I hate you more than any other god on Olympus.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself. All men need the gods...

Ne rüzgar eserdi orada ne yaÄŸmur yaÄŸard?, kar bile düÅŸmezdi, yaz günlerinin bulutsuz havas? ve bembeyaz parlakl??? hüküm sürerdi; mutlu tanr?lar iÅŸte orada tad?n? ç?kar?rd? günlerinin.

And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods—the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.

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

In a 2002 interview with Science Fiction Weekly magazine, when asked: Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour. Is this what gods would actually be like? Banks replied: If we're lucky.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

The Greeks were right to invent their gods as argumentative unpredictable punitive members of a lofty elite. If he could believe in such all-too-human gods they would be the ones to fear. 4 In the third week after Alissa's disappearance Roland set about imposing order on the overstuffed bookshelves around the table just off the kitchen.

You're like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities' desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone. — Kate Daniels

I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait.

Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt.

You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...? Oh, Gods. Ignata blinked. You think something could be wrong down there? All of them looked at William, who chose this precise moment to slide the wet shirt back on his back, which required him to flex, raising his arms. That would be a shame, Cerise murmured.

There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.