Playing god Quote by Elizabeth Wein Download Open image ““Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God”” — Elizabeth Wein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Playing god
“God—unless you’re Charlton Heston, or unhinged, or both—speaks and acts entirely through the vehicle of human beings, if there is a God.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Only a fool ignores a credible threat by a committed, strong enemy which swears to destroy his nation and which enemy swears that the… — John Price Copy Share Image
“If there is a God, I doubt he is such a hard-liner. Rather, I imagine him greeting the men and women who take their… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“The God-man who is humiliated is the stumbling block to the pious human being and to the human being, period.” — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“God heard the embattled nations sing and shout "Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!" God this, God that, and God the other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a screenplay, one where God appears with a bag of golf clubs in the apartment of a successful New York public… — Scott Carrier Copy Share Image
“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“A man becomes God when his vision moves beyond the bounds of victors and losers,” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer, and Croc shoes.” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit,… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a straightforward statement, readers can figure… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share
“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown. — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
The Internet connection from the road can be spotty, so usually when I'm on the tour bus, I'm playing 'God of War.' — Big Show Copy Share Image
The world is playing lets make a barbie doll with your body,but the truth is they know you love your body and what the eyes not satisfied with it looks and goes and get it and brings cash to have...but you see the world to busy playing GOD when he made you just right,you have to work for it ,just… — Frenchqueen Copy Share
There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when… — John Irving Copy Share
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image