Propitiate Quotes

#1. When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

John Burroughs

#2. Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Alexander Smith

#3. In our patriarchal world, we are all taught - whether we like to think we are or not - that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness ... that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.

Sonia Johnson

#4. My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

#5. All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

Steven Pinker

#6. Pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods.
[Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.

Plato

#9. The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

Paul Shepard

#11. The man looked over at the woman. "The things I do for love," he said with loathing. He gave Bran a shove.

George R R Martin

#12. In order to be embarrassed, a person has to care about the opinions of others first.

Colleen Hoover

#13. Love is not everything you have, it's everything that you can lose.

Irmak Akcebe

#14. My family is my strength and my weakness.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#15. Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie
could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Mark Twain

#16. Love is the foundation of strength.

Elizabeth Hunter

#17. I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

Leonard Nimoy

#18. International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Karl Liebknecht

#19. Gabriel?" I said.
"Yeah?" His voice was breathless.
"Kiss me.

Kim Harrington

#20. It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.

Michael Lewis

#21. Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A

Jhumpa Lahiri

#22. I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

Jonathan Safran Foer