And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Whom the gods love dies young.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Gods always love the people who make em.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
