Boredom Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to…

— J. M. Coetzee

“If God were omnipresent and omniscient in any literal sense, he wouldn't have bothered to make the universe at all. There is no success…

— Raymond Chandler

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the…

— John Buchan

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

— Alan Watts

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously…

— Murray Leinster

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing!”

— Stanislaw Lem

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final…

— Bertrand Russell

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

— Melvin Calvin

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything butfruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

— Victor Hugo

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

— Niccolo Machiavelli