Top 100 Zeus's Quotes

#1. Or perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again - giving me a taste of my old power before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #6425
#2. The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #14863
#3. Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12]

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #18461
#4. FEAR NOT, said a voice from the glitter. I AM ZEUS, LORD OF THE SKY. YOU LOOK FINE, GIRL. DO YOU WANT TO HANG OUT?

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #46461
#5. I'm a sucker for a guy with scars, so for your protection, we should probably stick to the case."
"I'm not scared.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #63228
#6. *to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard

Eoin Colfer

Zeus's Quotes #90068
#7. My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth.
No, no. That was crazy talk.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #99274
#8. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.

Larry Wall

Zeus's Quotes #99934
#9. O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?

Euripides

Zeus's Quotes #102592
#10. Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?
Athena's answer : What an interesting idea ... No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #117153
#11. Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.

Robert Bly

Zeus's Quotes #157023
#12. She opened one eye. "The goddess Artemis is going to talk to the supreme god Zeus ... about me?"
"Yup."
She closed her eyes again. "I'm so not okay.

Rosanna Leo

Zeus's Quotes #162298
#13. My father toasted me mockingly with his glass. "Then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die."

"Next week," Hades interrupted.

Zeus glowered at him. "Yes, obviously, but I was using a metaphor."
"No," his brother replied. "You were paraphrasing. Badly.

Tellulah Darling

Zeus's Quotes #166923
#14. stole the ambrosia of the gods and was cursed by Zeus to be trapped forever between a bountiful fruit tree and a pool of water. Whenever he tries to eat, the branches rise away. When he tries to drink, the water recedes. It's the source of the English word tantalize.

Yudhi Raman

Zeus's Quotes #167291
#15. He was, after all, the ultimate rebel
it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Jasper Fforde

Zeus's Quotes #167429
#16. I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Thomas Lewis

Zeus's Quotes #206848
#17. Zeus was kind of a sneaky bastard and was always morphing into other creatures to get it on with the ladies...

Sibylla Matilde

Zeus's Quotes #219784
#18. Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness - she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #220042
#19. My bus is in flames My son is older than me Please, Zeus, make it stop

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #227942
#20. She kissed his chest. "Thanks for letting me into your heart."
He tucked her hair behind her ear. "You walked in like you had a key.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #238882
#21. When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Bob Dylan

Zeus's Quotes #239185
#22. The mad fucker just laughed that insane laugh and pulled his sword out of his ass. Zeus, now afflicted with acute pietism, gasped and asked him to do that again. Jupiter slapped him to to the ground, and yelled for him to get his priorities in order.

Kevin Hearne

Zeus's Quotes #241441
#23. Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #242326
#24. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.

Wil Zeus

Zeus's Quotes #254549
#25. Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.

Wil Zeus

Zeus's Quotes #255664
#26. According to history, he wrote of humans originally having four arms, four legs, and a single head made up of two faces." I stared awkwardly at him. "But, in fear of their power, Zeus split them all in half, condemning them to a life of searching for their other half...

K.A. Poe

Zeus's Quotes #273224
#27. A bolt of lightning crackled out of the sky and fried a Laistrygonian giant to ashes, and I knew Thalia must be doing her 'daughter of Zeus' thing.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #276474
#28. You're already married!" Hera protested. "To me!"
"Curses!" said Zeus. "Er, I mean, of course, dear.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #288386
#29. Zeus is the king, right? (Simone)
He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he's a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by Hera at least once in his existence. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Zeus's Quotes #291780
#30. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Sophocles

Zeus's Quotes #367257
#31. The winds," Jason said. "Father, can't you unleash the winds to send our ship back?" Zeus glowered. "I could slap you back to Long Island." "Um, was that a joke, or a threat, or - " "No," Zeus said, "I mean it quite literally. I could slap your ship back to Camp Half-Blood, but the force involved...

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #374488
#32. If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #375933
#33. If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

Greta Christina

Zeus's Quotes #378028
#34. Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Edith Hamilton

Zeus's Quotes #379019
#35. Suzy Zeus is tense as stemware,
not explosive, just on edge -
needs a ten-foot wall around her,
or at least a ten-foot hedge,
Suzy's straining, teeth to toenails,
easing backward on the ledge.

Maggie Robbins

Zeus's Quotes #387971
#36. And why shouldn't Piper intimidate them? Aphrodite was the most ancient Olympian, born of the sea and the blood of Ouranos. She was older than Poseidon or Athena or even Zeus. And Piper was her daughter.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #397958
#37. These daughters of Zeus and Themis were: Eirene: The personification of peace Eunomia: The personification of law and order Dike: The personification of justice

Kathleen Sears

Zeus's Quotes #410239
#38. Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #412651
#39. ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more whining prattle from you, Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.

Dan Simmons

Zeus's Quotes #413690
#40. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."

"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.

Amanda Bouchet

Zeus's Quotes #422226
#41. So, Azalee - " When he turned to her, she stared daggers back - almost as though she had read his mind. Can Chertzes do that? he wondered in a wild moment of panic.

"What?" bit Azalee when he didn't continue.

Mighty Zeus, could he go five minutes without offending a woman?

Deidre Huesmann

Zeus's Quotes #426983
#42. Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

Esther M. Friesner

Zeus's Quotes #431868
#43. Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

Archilochus

Zeus's Quotes #445401
#44. The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

Aeschylus

Zeus's Quotes #445614
#45. In his robes and sandals, Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #453233
#46. Dostoevsky, like Goethe's Prometheus, creates not voiceless slaves (as does Zeus), but free people, capable of standing alongside their creator, capable of not agreeing with him and even of rebelling against him. A

Mikhail Bakhtin

Zeus's Quotes #506132
#47. I don't know why it's not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.

Amanda Bouchet

Zeus's Quotes #507183
#48. Oh, for the love of Hey-zeus," he heard her grumbling. "Where are you, motherfucker?

Elle Kennedy

Zeus's Quotes #520193
#49. Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus , a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

Camille Paglia

Zeus's Quotes #556430
#50. Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Euripides

Zeus's Quotes #557750
#51. A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of his heart.

Zeus

Zeus's Quotes #567993
#52. A digital wall of masks stared back at him. His finger rolled the mouse in a slow downward scroll.
Okay, you bastard. Where are you?

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #574496
#53. Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Marcus Aurelius

Zeus's Quotes #581832
#54. One wrong move and I'm sleeping with the fishes?"

Zeus' brow creased in confusion. "Why would you sleep in water?"

Hades looked at his brother like he was a moron. "It's The Godfather...Forget it.

Tellulah Darling

Zeus's Quotes #589096
#55. The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

Heraclitus

Zeus's Quotes #590822
#56. Inspiration before intercourse.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #599278
#57. Every generation, the nine daughters of Zeus are reborn, and with their rebirth are also nine Guardians. They will be marked by the gods, and given gifts to protect his treasure. Their abilities will only be unlocked when they find their muse.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #600247
#58. O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Euripides

Zeus's Quotes #606199
#59. Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom - ah the soul-destroying boredom - of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Zeus's Quotes #606615
#60. Solving crimes is like following a spider web. Everything is connected in some way. It's just figuring out where things intersect so I can find the spider in the middle.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #609739
#61. Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."
Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time -

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #612938
#62. If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

Chuck Klosterman

Zeus's Quotes #617256
#63. You look like a Greek God sent down by the immortal Zeus from Mount Olympus to taunt the rest of us inferior beings with your astonishing beauty, I said, which somehow in translation came out as "you look fine, why?

John Boyne

Zeus's Quotes #618579
#64. The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.

Siri Hustvedt

Zeus's Quotes #627182
#65. What in the name of Zeus's testicles?

Darynda Jones

Zeus's Quotes #628554
#66. Yeah, Cabin One. A big honor, the other campers had told him. Sure, if you liked sleeping in a cold tempelby yourself with Hippie Zeus frowning down at you all night.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #647035
#67. Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.

Luke Evans

Zeus's Quotes #650165
#68. Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #654663
#69. Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #668400
#70. When the Greek goddess Hera married Zeus, the goddess Gaia created three golden apples and gave them to Hera as a wedding gift.

Denise Grover Swank

Zeus's Quotes #689968
#71. We turned and ran, leaving Zeus hanging.

Peter Lerangis

Zeus's Quotes #695303
#72. If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

Richard Kadrey

Zeus's Quotes #696405
#73. As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.

Diogenes Laertius

Zeus's Quotes #700311
#74. She stared at me. "Fly, ;ole, in an airplane, which you were warned never to do lest Zeus strike you out of the sky, AND carrying a weapon that has more destructive power than a nuclear bomb?"
"Yeah," I said. "Pretty much exactly like that.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #727627
#75. When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

George Saunders

Zeus's Quotes #749549
#76. For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.

Aeschylus

Zeus's Quotes #778651
#77. Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

Hesiod

Zeus's Quotes #780288
#78. But no matter where we go, I would still be a daughter of Zeus and you a son of Apollo.

Josephine Angelini

Zeus's Quotes #783541
#79. It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

Epictetus

Zeus's Quotes #799650
#80. The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

Tony Snow

Zeus's Quotes #800496
#81. Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #811677
#82. A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.

Alfred Goodwin

Zeus's Quotes #819638
#83. It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.

Anonymous

Zeus's Quotes #822192
#84. Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #846477
#85. You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Epictetus

Zeus's Quotes #851087
#86. Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like ...

Alan Green

Zeus's Quotes #857312
#87. My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus.

Yelle Hughes

Zeus's Quotes #858909
#88. We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

Wil Zeus

Zeus's Quotes #882129
#89. That little punk," Zeus grumbled. "Prometheus armed the cockroaches." Next to him, the goddess Hera said, "Uh, what?" "Nothing," Zeus muttered. He yelled to his guards: "Find Prometheus and get him in here. NOW!

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #888298
#90. One day his mom, Rhea, came to visit on her chariot pulled by lions.
'Zeus,' she said, 'you need a summer job.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #899349
#91. I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun ... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus ... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.

Roman Payne

Zeus's Quotes #914085
#92. The Order of the Titans had agreed with his assessment. This generation, the Order would be successful where previous generations had failed, because this time they would steal mankind's inspiration. They would kill the muses for the greater good ...
For the good of mankind.

Lisa Kessler

Zeus's Quotes #930361
#93. One man is a splendid fighter
a god has made him so
one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

Homer

Zeus's Quotes #1007589
#94. By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

Mercedes Lackey

Zeus's Quotes #1152568
#95. For all I knew, Zeus was aware of the Beast and his plans, and he had sent me here specifically to deal with the situation ... a thought that did not make me any more likely to get him a nice tie for Father's Day.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #1257723
#96. So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho) As long as it doesn't involve the entrails of demons, I might be persuaded. (Delphine) Demon entrails have no appeal for me, either. Zeus's are another matter. (Jericho)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Zeus's Quotes #1316179
#97. You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.

Rick Riordan

Zeus's Quotes #1414436
#98. It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Zeus's Quotes #1463765
#99. Q: Prove God doesn't exist. A: That's a tough one. Show me how it's done by proving Zeus and Apollo don't exist, and I'll use your method.

Pat Condell

Zeus's Quotes #1832494
#100. Pandora. Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar. Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar. Nobody tells her not to open the jar. Naturally, she opens the jar.

Liane Moriarty

Zeus's Quotes #1852492

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