Goddess Quotes - Page 10

• Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

  John Ralston Saul

  Reality, Desire, Disease

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Flames, House

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.

  Rick Riordan

  Nuts, Sky, Baboons

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• Frank nodded grimly. “Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can’t be all bad. Let’s go.

  Rick Riordan

  Giants, Wells, Frank

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• You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Deserve Better, Balance

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.233, Penguin UK

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• The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sports, War, Night

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.21, Del Rey

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• Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Crush, Divinity, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more. Nike let out a laugh. " Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You'll get used to it.

  Jennifer Estep

  Girl, Nike, Eye

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.258, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? I love the clouds the clouds that pass up there Up there the wonderful clouds!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mother, Country, Brother

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

  Yukio Mishima

  Blood, Humanity, Kali

  Yukio Mishima (1974). “The Decay of the Angel”, Random House

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• Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.452, Penguin

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• Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

  James Whistler

  Art, Perfection, Desire

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess and an unbelievable actress, and she introduced herself. As she walked away from the table I had to take a deep breath, which was strange because I've never had that with anyone.

  Carey Mulligan

  Stars, Thinking, Actresses

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Fall, Men

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

  Wally Lamb

  Moon, Snakes, Skulls

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

  Dion Fortune

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

  Ken Wilber

  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Experts, Students, Truth Is

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• If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Home, Years

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Cyborg

  "You Are Cyborg" by Hari Kunzru, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• Become goddesses of disobedience.

  Naomi Wolf

  Funny Graduation, Disobedience

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• His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Art, Nature, Law

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• Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

  Thomas Gray

  Flames, Track, Mind

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.38

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• Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

  Kenneth Anger

  Home, Hollywood, Ghost

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