When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or… — William L. Rowe Copy Share Image
If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view. — Arthur Herzog Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I want, I think, to be omniscient. I think I would like to call myself "the girl who wanted to be God."… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image