Deify Quotes

#1. Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

David Lloyd-Jones

#2. Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Timothy Keller

#3. There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#4. Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.

Oswald Chambers

#5. We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

#6. We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#7. His message was to follow the Course, don't put it on a pedestal, and don't deify it or make it a holy text.

Carol Howe

#8. When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

Mariella Frostrup

#9. Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.

Angela B. Chrysler

#10. those who cannot find food for their enthusiasm in a knowledge of their country as it actually is, or those who cannot love men just because they are men - who needs must shout and deify their country in order to keep up their excitement - these love excitement more than their country. To

Rabindranath Tagore

#11. Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

Oakley Hall

#13. They deify what crushes them and find reason to hope in what impoverishes them.

Albert Camus

#14. It is bad religion to deify doctrines and creeds ... Doctrines, let's not forget, supported slavery and apartheid ... Moreover, doctrines can divide while compassion can only unite.

William Sloane Coffin

#15. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.

Arundhati Roy

#16. Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her.

Marjorie Rosen

#18. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear
civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

Arundhati Roy

#19. In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

Joseph Campbell

#20. The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.

Rene Girard

#21. I don't believe it is good to constantly deify war as if peace, which is the happiness and glory of the world, could be the shame of nations.

Lamartine

#22. Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

Bill Maher

#23. It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you have to be judicious with it. So it's good, but sometimes people deify it. You can't improvise your way out of a paper hat.

Steve Coogan

#24. The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!

Phil Wohl

#26. What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession?

Tim O'Brien

#27. Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.

Graeme Sparkes

#28. I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

#29. And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Paulo Coelho

#30. Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.

Gustave Flaubert

#31. I don't get why people say the sky's the limit when we have footprints on the moon.

Lorde

#32. I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like 'Irreversible,' 'The Passion of the Christ,' 'Malena'; it's so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That's why I'm an actor.

Monica Bellucci

#33. Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

Mehmet Murat Ildan