Playing God Quotes

• Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

  George Burns

  Funny, God, Humorous

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• Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

  Ramez Naam

  Children, Expression, Play

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• When we stop playing God, God can play through us.

  Julia Cameron

  Play

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• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• 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 of anything scarier than that?

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thinking, Hands, Scared

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “The dark side of midnight: featuring The other side of midnight, Rage of angels”

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• You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Taken, Doctors

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• Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

  Alex Epstein

  Cloning, Moral, Form

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• If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Our World, Way, Made

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• This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Fake, Trying

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• 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 be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Clothes, Doctors

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• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Mean, Thinking, Doctors

  "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. April 17, 2010.

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• Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Elements, Littles

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". TIME interview, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

  Hugh Panaro

  Jesus, Mean, Superstar

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Easter, Christ On The Cross, Answers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• 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 of people they want to be.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Character, Destiny, People

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  God, Voice, Political

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• 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 reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Reason, Roman Gods

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.fandango.com. May 2, 2012.

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• God does not play dice [with the universe].
  [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

  Albert Einstein

  God, Play, Gambling

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• 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 it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

  John Irving

  Believe, Men, Winning

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• You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

  Janet Morris

  God, War, Pride

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

  Tom Hardy

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  "Tom Hardy Describes Showdown With Gary Oldman In 'The Dark Knight Rises'". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ifc.com. May 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Clown, Used

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