Gods Will Be Watching Quotes

#1. Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

Eva Longoria

#3. We beg one hour of death, that neither she
With widow's tears may live to bury me,
Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear
My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

Ovid

#4. Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.

George R R Martin

#5. Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. Coal cars grind past in the wet dark. Machinery hums in the distance: pistons throbbing, belts turning. Smoothly. Madly.

Anthony Doerr

#6. The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Mason Cooley

#7. I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Jean Giraudoux

#8. Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee.

Charles Bowden

#9. Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts, when you haven't mastered them.

Gautama Buddha

#10. Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen.

Alvin Lucier

#11. We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it.

Annie Dillard

#12. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

Madeline Miller

#13. The Holy Ghost unveils God's Word to us; He reveals the things of God to us.

Chris Oyakhilome

#14. I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.

C.N. Faust

#15. The end of the world will be legal.

Thomas Merton

#16. I'm so in love with him I can't even ask him out. I want to lie at his feet, want to smooth out all the wrinkles in his life and make everything okay.

Heidi Cullinan

#17. Funny thing, watching gods realize they've been mortal all along.

Pierce Brown

#18. Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

Gene Wolfe

#19. I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#20. I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

Gail Devers

#21. I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.

Lynn Povich

#22. He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Emile Zola

#23. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"

"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.

Melinda Salisbury

#24. I see parents who want their kid to be better than the kid wants to be. I tell parents to encourage kids to find their passion. You can give them the opportunity to do many things.

Diandra Asbaty