T Quotes
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“The gods promised
I'd wake up
a stranger.
Now the old king's worms are aglow;
not in a good sense,
for their lack of good sense”
Source: NightMARE Crush
“The Gods rank work above virtues.”
“The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The gods see the deeds of the righteous.
[Lat., Di pia facta vident.]”
“the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.”
“The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.”
“The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.”
“The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.”
Source: Anne's House of Dreams
“The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.”
Source: The wanderer
“The gods sustain and guide all their works.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.”
“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”
“The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.”
“The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.”
“The gods thought otherwise.
Dis aliter visum.”
Source: Aeneid, Book 2. Edited With Introductory Notices, Notes, Complete Vocabulary and Illustrations
“The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.”
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
“The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
“The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both.”
“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.”
“The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders, who are less favoured of the Lord. Amazingly, there are no recorded cases of the holy man going up the mountain and finding that it's the others who are right. It always turns out that God wants unbelievers to suffer, and what could be more noble than to help him a little? When religion rules, toleration disappears, for you cannot cherish the verdict of death to the infidels, yet also tolerate those who disagree - for those are the very same infidels.”
“The gods we worship are only mirrors of our fears and desires. If you would be free, stop kneeling and start creating.”
Source: If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations: Think Fight Club Vibes for The Self-Improvement Fanatic.
“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”
“The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different.”
“The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.”
“The gods were silent. The winds were not.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.”
“The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.”
“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.”
“The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.”
“The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.”
“The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”
“The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.”
Source: The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure
“The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.”
“The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.”
Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works
“The going is the goal.”
Source: Patterns of progress
“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”
“The gold booty of Gyges means nothing to me.
I don't envy that Lydian king, nor am I jealous
of what gods can do, nor of the tyrants' great
powers. All these are realms beyond my vision.”
“The gold cross around his neck lay itself upon me.”
Source: Feeling Lucky
“The Gold Cup really is about getting the job done and winning it and qualifying us for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017. That's why it's really crucial for us to have players on the roster that have tremendous experience.”
“The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.”
“The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.”
“The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.”
“The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.”
“The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.”
Source: Human Action
“The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.”
Source: Songs of the Sun-lands