Quotes about Mortals

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. Votes: 3

Mortals are equal; their mask differs. Votes: 3

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. Votes: 3

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you. Votes: 3

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. Votes: 3

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals Votes: 3

I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere! Votes: 3

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. Votes: 3

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. Votes: 3

Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. Votes: 3

Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. Votes: 3

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. Votes: 3

Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end! Votes: 3

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. Votes: 3

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more. Votes: 3

Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice. Votes: 3

Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them. Votes: 3

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than they sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 3

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted. Votes: 3

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Votes: 3

Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which leaves the question as to why you are an exception." Votes: 3

Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion. Votes: 3

On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals! Votes: 3

Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't Votes: 3

Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God. Votes: 3

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. Votes: 2

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. Votes: 2

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Votes: 2

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Votes: 2

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. Votes: 2

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. Votes: 2

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. Votes: 2

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. Votes: 2

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. Votes: 2

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Votes: 2

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. Votes: 2

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. Votes: 2

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. Votes: 2

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. Votes: 2

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. Votes: 2

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Votes: 2

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. Votes: 2

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. Votes: 2

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? Votes: 2

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. Votes: 2

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. Votes: 2

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. Votes: 2

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Votes: 2

Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that. Votes: 2

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. Votes: 2

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. Votes: 2

Stupid, fragile mortals. Votes: 0

Composing mortals with immortal fire. Votes: 0

Oh what fools we mortals are. Votes: 0

Lord, what fools these mortals be! Votes: 0

There is nothing assured to mortals. Votes: 0

Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals. Votes: 0

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron) Votes: 0

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. Votes: 0

Conscience is a God to all mortals. Votes: 0

Money is life to us wretched mortals. Votes: 0

Security is the chief enemy of mortals. Votes: 0

To many mortals silence great gain brings. Votes: 0

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals. Votes: 0

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. Votes: 0

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. Votes: 0

Equality is what does not exist among mortals. Votes: 0

Tis not for mortals always to be blest. Votes: 0

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals. Votes: 0

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs! Votes: 0

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. Votes: 0

We are all mortals, and each is for himself. Votes: 0

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. Votes: 0

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. Votes: 0

so mortals tend to see only what they can understand. Votes: 0

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. Votes: 0

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse. Votes: 0

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life. Votes: 0

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. Votes: 0

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. Votes: 0

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. Votes: 0

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. Votes: 0

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. Votes: 0

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals! Votes: 0

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. Votes: 0

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. Votes: 0

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all. Votes: 0

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. Votes: 0

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. Votes: 0

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad! Votes: 0

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you. Votes: 0

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. Votes: 0

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. Votes: 0

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. Votes: 0

Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals. Votes: 0

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. Votes: 0

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Votes: 0

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. Votes: 0

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. Votes: 0

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. Votes: 0

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins ! Votes: 0

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. Votes: 0

When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. Votes: 0

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature Votes: 0

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly. Votes: 0

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. Votes: 0

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. Votes: 0

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. Votes: 0

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. Votes: 0

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals, Votes: 0

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. Votes: 0

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? Votes: 0

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. Votes: 0

Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. Votes: 0

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. Votes: 0

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. Votes: 0

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. Votes: 0

Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is. Votes: 0

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. Votes: 0

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. Votes: 0

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. Votes: 0

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it. Votes: 0

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. Votes: 0

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend. Votes: 0

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Votes: 0

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. Votes: 0

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary Votes: 0

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals .... Votes: 0

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? Votes: 0

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides. Votes: 0

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. Votes: 0

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. Votes: 0

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals Votes: 0

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow. Votes: 0

Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:We are but mortals, and must sing of men." Votes: 0

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. Votes: 0

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief. Votes: 0

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! Votes: 0

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals. Votes: 0

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. Votes: 0

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends? Votes: 0

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? Votes: 0

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past Votes: 0

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. Votes: 0

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death~? Votes: 0

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight. Votes: 0

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. Votes: 0

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. Votes: 0

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools. Votes: 0

An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. Votes: 0

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. Votes: 0

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. Votes: 0

I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals. Votes: 0

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals. Votes: 0

Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead Votes: 0

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. Votes: 0

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes. Votes: 0

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. Votes: 0

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell. Votes: 0

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. Votes: 0

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. Votes: 0

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. Votes: 0

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. Votes: 0

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. Votes: 0

Tell me, ye wingèd winds That round my pathway roar, Know ye not some spot Where mortals weep no more? Votes: 0

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are Votes: 0

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them? Votes: 0

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part. Votes: 0

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. Votes: 0

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. Votes: 0

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable. Votes: 0

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. Votes: 0

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals. Votes: 0

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. Votes: 0

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. Votes: 0

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. Votes: 0

Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish. Votes: 0

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. Votes: 0

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. Votes: 0

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies. Votes: 0

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! Votes: 0

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] Votes: 0

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. Votes: 0

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay. Votes: 0

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune. Votes: 0

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals. Votes: 0

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Votes: 0

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect Votes: 0

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Votes: 0

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty. Votes: 0

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. Votes: 0

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king. Votes: 0

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. Votes: 0

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom. Votes: 0

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. Votes: 0

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest. Votes: 0

I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be. Votes: 0

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. Votes: 0

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. Votes: 0

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. Votes: 0

How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face." Votes: 0

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. Votes: 0

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. Votes: 0

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. Votes: 0

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. Votes: 0

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals Votes: 0

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations. Votes: 0

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds? Votes: 0

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Votes: 0

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. Votes: 0

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!... Votes: 0

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love. Votes: 0

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this. Votes: 0

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects. Votes: 0

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. Votes: 0

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. Votes: 0

THAT'S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY'VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING. Votes: 0

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts. Votes: 0

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. Votes: 0

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture. Votes: 0

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals! Votes: 0

We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us. Votes: 0

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Votes: 0

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better. Votes: 0

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. Votes: 0

death is predestined for all mortals. Souls live forever, but the body does not. Unless you are immortal, both the soul and body are tied together."~Taznikos Abyssos Votes: 0

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. Votes: 0

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. Votes: 0

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Votes: 0

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. Votes: 0

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed. Votes: 0

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss. Votes: 0

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools. Votes: 0

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals. Votes: 0

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. Votes: 0

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. Votes: 0

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. Votes: 0

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals. Votes: 0

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness... Votes: 0

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other. Votes: 0

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. Votes: 0

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. Votes: 0

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. Votes: 0

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing Votes: 0

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. Votes: 0

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies. Votes: 0

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. Votes: 0

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins. Votes: 0

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot. Votes: 0

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are. Votes: 0

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... Votes: 0

And I, a vampire who had seduced countless mortals in his impossibly long existence, was forced to admit that it was she, this beautiful young human female, who had instead seduced me. Votes: 0

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit. Votes: 0

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race. Votes: 0

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! Votes: 0

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way. Votes: 0

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving Votes: 0

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place. Votes: 0

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere." Votes: 0

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing. Votes: 0

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere. Votes: 0

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing." Votes: 0

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. Votes: 0

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. Votes: 0

To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through... Votes: 0

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days. Votes: 0

Magnus did not take such suffering lightly, but even mortals did not die of broken hearts. No matter how cruel Grace had been, he told himself, James would heal. Even though he was a Herondale. Votes: 0

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance. Votes: 0

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS! Votes: 0