As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.

Andy Biersack

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adela Florence Nicolson

The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

Adrienne Mayor

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Aeschylus

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Aeschylus

The gods help them that help themselves.

Aesop

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Alan Lightman

It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware.

Alan Moore

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Aleister Crowley

We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.

Alex Jones

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Alexander the Great

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson