T Quotes
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“The gods hate man’s arrogance, the septons teach us, and the Seven-Pointed Star says that pride goes before a fall.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“The gods hate unjust men.”
“The Gods have a lesson that tells you to build and destroy and that's the cycle of life. Things have to be destroyed and then it has to be rebuilt. I think rap always go through cycles where it appears that it's destroying itself but it's actually purging itself and after it purges itself it comes into another state of being.”
“The gods have become our diseases.”
“The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde
“The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.”
“The gods have dreamed us into being, and our being now dreams for them, and perhaps in their slumber they will smile, wake up, and write in their journal the deepest of all truths:
Even Kings and Queens open doors for children.”
Source: Journey in Ecstatic Dance: Discovery of Spirit & Self
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.”
“The Gods have meant
That I should dance
And by the Gods
I will!”
“The Gods have meant
That I should dance
And in some mystic hour
I shall move to unheard rhythms
Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
And you will know the language
Of my wordless poems
And will come to me
For that is why I dance.”
“The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.”
“The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.”
“The gods have their own laws.
[Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]”
“The gods have their own rules.”
“The gods heard my prayer, she thought. She felt so numb and dreamy. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“The gods help them who help themselves.”
“The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703
“The gods, in kindness to mankind, have put in most men’s hearts the wish to be loved and honored, even when they greatly wish for power. Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.”
Source: The Praise Singer
“The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.”
“The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.”
Source: In the City of Shy Hunters
“The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.”
Source: The Gods Lie
“The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.”
Source: Minima Moralia
“The gods love those of ordered soul.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“The gods love you, Fabius. You delivered a Legion to them. You opened the door with your twisted ingenuity, in ways Erebus could not conceive. And you are still opening that door, every time your scalpel draws a red line across flesh. The universe is made of two parts--a knife and a stone. If you do not wield the one, you must lay upon the other.
And you wield the knife very well indeed.”
Source: Fabius Bile: The Omnibus
“The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.”
“The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.”
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 made seven wonders and mortal men made mine.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons
“The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel.”
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 may have spoken, but Nature only bends to a goddess.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.]”
“The gods need heroes. They always have.”
“The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.”
“The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.”
Source: Till We Have Faces
“The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.”
“The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.”
Source: Angels, Demons & Gods of the New Millenium
“The Gods of Roan, the Acere––whisper:
Wait for me, the lost one said:
And remain dead among them.”
Source: The Mage's Tome
“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.”
“The gods of the hearth exist for us still; and let all new faith be tolerant of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own roots.”
“The gods of the old world have stood aside, obeyed the ancient laws giving free will to men, and now, when our realm and yours hang in the balance, we are still bound by our covenants. The laws are clear: we can act only through man. And in all the world, there are only two strong enough to defeat them. One born for it, the other through great sacrifice.”
Source: Beyond a Darkened Shore
“The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.”
Source: Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt
“The Gods of the Stars created three Worlds, three parallel realities, far apart in time and space, but inextricably interlinked, worlds where all beings could live in peace and harmony with each other and with the earth they inhabited.
The Gods of the Stars had great wisdom, they knew all the secrets of the universe, they certainly created other worlds and other beings in unknown realities, but this is a discourse that would take us too far...”
Source: Nel Mondo del Tempo
“The Gods of the Stars created three Worlds, three parallel realities, far apart in time and space, but inextricably interlinked, worlds where all beings could live in peace and harmony with each other and with the earth they inhabited.
The Gods of the Stars had great wisdom, they knew all the secrets of the universe, they certainly created other worlds and other beings in unknown realities, but this is a discourse that would take us too far...
"In the World of Time”
“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.”
“The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”
Source: The Crystal Cave
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
Source: Antigone
“The gods play games with men as balls.”
“the gods play no
favorites.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense