Best Deus Ex Quotes

#1. There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

Plautus

#2. Though she were another person, a deus ex machina

Danielle Steel

#3. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?

Howard Mittelmark

#4. It was a deus-ex-machina world!

John Irving

#5. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Ashim Shanker

#6. I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.

Chris Dee

#7. Evil" read backwards is "live." Demon est deus inversus.

Alan W. Watts

#8. Christ is "truly God and truly man" (Vera Deus, vera homo).

R.C. Sproul

#9. Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. Let us end this farce, observer! Give me your final, most beloved act of "will"... The one you most wish to believe was your own idea!
"My own... will... I... I believe that this love for Yukiteru-kun... is real!

Sakae Esuno

#12. Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Florence King

#13. Darkness was all they knew, and eventually they thought it was the light.

A.J. Deus

#14. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Mike Mehalek

#15. Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives ... Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

Robert McKee

#16. One small decision can change the world.

A.J. Deus

#17. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson

#18. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Marisha Pessl

#19. Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
[Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]

Horace

#20. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#21. Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents" ... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina" ... in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.

Thomas McCormack

#22. The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#23. My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Jonathan Ball

#24. This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven.
[Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

#26. The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

R.D. Laing

#27. I made the same mistake that people have been making since the beginning of time, thinking that you can change yourself just by going somewhere else. Meu Deus, I sound like a self-help book.

Luiza Sauma

#28. But think about it -what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up there and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?

Haruki Murakami

#29. I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

Warren Spector

#30. The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.

Carl Schmitt

#31. I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Warren Spector