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.
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.
The gods help them that help themselves.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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.
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
With 'Greek Gods,' I wanted to go with the blue and green hues of sky and water; with 'Heroes,' I felt the color needed to be more dramatic and give a sense of battle, rage, and yes, of blood. That's the world these demigods lived in, and I felt that orange and red would also compliment the greenish blue of the 'Gods' cover.
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
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.
I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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.
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
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.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.
