I feel like a
I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins. Ellen Hopkins
Olympus
People in big empty
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. Edna Ferber
Could truth perhaps be
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be–to speak Greek–Baubo?… Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in … Read more
By sending the contradictory
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain … Read more
The heart of the
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the … Read more
But you have nothing
But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. Claudia Gray
The God that reigns
The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
I do not pretend
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie … Read more
And when a strong
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. Anne Rice
Everyone would tell me
Everyone would tell me they couldn’t identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can’t identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don’t live on Mt. Olympus. Alexander Chee