T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.”
Source: The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition
“The Goddess is the Encircler, the Ground of Being; the God is That-Which-Is-Brought-Forth, her mirror image, her other pole. She is the earth; He is the grain. She is the all encompassing sky; He is the sun, her fireball. She is the Wheel; He is the traveler. He is the sacrifice of life to death that life may go on. She is the Mother and Destroyer; He is all that is born and is destroyed.”
“The goddess Kuan Yin is perhaps the most famous bodhisattva in East Asia. She is the graceful lady of the Orient. She's related in iconographical background to Isis in the ancient world, or the Virgin Mary in our modern Western World.”
“The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.”
“The goddess of death visited me in a dream. “A job well done, son of Tyr,” she said. “Your mother is safe. I may even grant you permission to visit her from time to time.”
Warring emotions bubbled up in my gut then—anger at how my mother had been treated, and elation that one day I might get to see her again. Elation won out.
“I look forward to that,” I said. “And I’m glad your dog is back home, even though he’s destined to kill my dad. But right now, do me a favor.” I rolled over and pulled up the covers. “Go to Helheim.”
Source: 9 From the Nine Worlds
“The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.”
“The Goddess of poetry,who loves to unveil the mystic truth of transparent life,never resembles a woman who hides to keep her secrets behind the false veil.”
“The goddess of sex that most men had fantasized about since their teenage years wasn’t to be found in some red-light district of town or in an illicit magazine but was actually standing right next to them at work, at the library, at the coffee shop. And they were too blind to see it!”
Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“The Goddess of the Earth. The one who embraces the light of the Sun and the stars: entwining destiny with the patterns of nature. The one who is our body of flesh – and yearning to hold the light of our souls.”
Source: Lahana
“The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.”
“The goddess shrugged. ''One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid a civil war among the gods."
"It unbalanced the Council," I remembered. "Suddenly there were seven guys and five girls."
Hestia shrugged. "It was the best solution, not a perfect one. Now I tend the fire. I fade slowly into the background. No one will ever write epic poems about the deeds of Hestia. Most demigods don't even stop to talk to me. But that is no matter. I keep the peace. I yield when necessary. Can you do this?”
Source: The Last Olympian
“The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.”
Source: The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker
“The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.”
Source: Awakening: Book Five
“The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.”
“The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.”
Source: A Series of Pamphlets
“The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.”
“The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.”
“The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Sermons and discourses, 1723-1729
“The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.”
“The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.”
Source: A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism
“The godly madness makes you sane, spinning you through a holy insanity, and that's when the dance begins, the divine transformation.”
“The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.”
“The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.”
Source: idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics
“The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.”
“The gods and goddesses are not relics chiseled in stone. Whisper their names and you will find what time has not forgotten.”
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
Source: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
“The gods and goddesses were created by the mythologists. Then what is the Truth? These gods are the good cells of human brain. There were no existence of any gods and goddesses outside ever and even not today.”
“The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.”
“The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”
“The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister”
Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister
“The gods are business-like. They sell; they do not give. And for what they sell they demand a heavy price. We may buy life of them in many ways; with our honour, our health, our independence, our happiness; with our brains or with our hands. But somehow or other, in whatever currency we may choose to pay it, the price must be paid.”
Source: The Prince And Betty
“The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.”
Source: Magick in Theory and Practice
“the gods are created by poets" --Ovid”
“The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.”
Source: City of Stairs
“The Gods are dead. They all died laughing the day when one old Grim Beard of a God got up and said: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.”
“The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.”
Source: East of Eden
“The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“The gods are for whatever we wish. That is the point of gods. The gods will carry me onwards, and that is all that matters.”
Source: The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention
“The gods are fugitive guests of literature.”
“The gods are given even greater license to lie and deceive. Apparently, they do not have the same degree of responsibility to their relatives and allies as humans do. Effective acts of lying and deception seem to be admired as tokens of one god's at least temporary ascendancy over another god.”
Source: Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics
“The gods are immortal and who are saying so? Human beings are saying so. They hoped to become immortal by creating imaginary deities. In Upanishads we see that the Rishis are praying ‘Take me from death to immortality’. They are not praying for the imaginary deities, they are praying for themselves. The Vedic Rishis or sages were also human beings, and so they are praying for immortality of the human beings.”
“The gods are jealous and men are fools.”
Source: Shadowmaster
“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.”
“The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries")”
Source: The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
“The gods are not kind to us, any more than children are kind to their toys. We are here to amuse the gods, and at times it amuses them to be unkind.”
Source: War of the Wolf