T Quotes
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“The gods are on the side of the stronger.”
“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds”
“The gods are walking, Malcolm, and none of us are prepared.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.”
“The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.”
Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.
“The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.”
Source: Academicae quaestiones
“The gods began the world in seven days,” he said, “but everyone knows they didn’t complete it. They left parts of it undone for people to build themselves. Therefore the world is never done; it is always a work in progress. See that leaf on that tree out there? It wasn’t there yesterday. So that isn’t the same tree. You’re brand new too. Every day.”
Source: Yonder
“The gods behold all righteous actions.”
“The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.”
“The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.”
“The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?”
“The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.”
“The gods cannot reveal all things; otherwise, where is men's right to choose their fates? Where is your right to choose?”
Source: Lioness Rampant
“The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods.”
Source: Outpost
“The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.”
“The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common soldier today, and you are as good as kings. Each man here is part of me. So what’s left for the king to say? Only two words, but they are the two that your hearts want to
hear. Victory.And home!” Then his command cracked like a whip. “All together—move!”
Source: Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life”
“The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.”
“The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.”
“The gods damn you, look what you've done! If I want to grow this back, I'll have to endure the most terrifying sex imaginable! Gaahhhhhhh!”
Source: Hexed
“The gods demand entertainment. They demand trial and contest. We could not be allowed to defeat our own daemons, for that would be boring, and boredom is the only thing the eternals fear. We are being lined up, one by one, to tear at each other's throats. I do not think they wish to see a victor. I think they wish us to fight forever, locked in madness until the universe's end”
“The gods did not care. So she did not bother praying to them.”
“The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses.”
“The gods did riot: enrich man
with a knowledge of all things
from the beginning of life.
Yet man seeks, and in time
invents what may be better.”
“The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.”
“The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.”
“The gods do not fight against necessity.”
“The Gods do not make mistakes. They wouldn’t have sent Elara to us if they didn’t believe in her destiny.”
Source: The Girl With The Invincible Blood
“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
“The gods don't deserve any special deference solely because they're powerful. If they can judge us based on our actions, we should be treating them according to their own.”
“The gods don’t like to enslave you. They don’t like to give salary. Ask them for bonus and you will get it beyond your wildest imaginations. How to ask?
Simple. Be satisfied with what you have right now. Then everything you seek will be a bonus.”
“The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.”
Source: A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
“The gods favor the bold.”
“The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.”
“The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“The gods gave us powers, Adelina, because we are born to rule.”
Source: The Young Elites
“The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.”
“The gods give no more than you can bear. The unfriendly sea shall be your road. A new homeland lies far across the roaring wave.”
“The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
[Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]”
“The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.”
“The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.”
Source: The odyssey
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The gods had departed from the sky to relax at a tavern at the edge of the universe. Still, an extraordinary life took its course.”
Source: Behind Blue Eyes: A Tale of Joe's Addiction
“The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“The gods had vanished, her mother had once claimed. But had they? Had it been some god who had visited tonight, clothed in the skin of a battered young woman? Or had it merely been their distant whispers that prompted the stranger to walk down that alley? She would never know, she supposed. And maybe that was the whole point.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade