I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals, — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? — John Milton Copy Share Image
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“People. Mortals, capable of making mistakes. People always make mistakes. Day in, day out. We are experts in the art of the… — Jessica Thompson Copy Share Image
The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books.… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of… — Mary Magdalene Copy Share Image
Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Mortals dies." said Catarina. "You've always known that, and yet you've loved them before." "Not," Magnus said, "like this." Catarina inhaled in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image