'If you want to play God, I can't stop you, but I'm staying with my people.
Besides, why play at being a cable mogul when you can play God instead?
The next most common reason is that we all like to play God sometimes.
Xbox owners the world over could finally play God of War and Uncharted.
FORBES: Time To End All This Doom And Gloom Over Sony And The PlayStation
In both cases, each Fed chairman tried to play God rather than attend to his humbler job of maintaining a stable dollar.
With his philosophical toy, Vaucanson invited man to play god.
How sick of a society do we live in where attorneys can play god at the expense of the quality of life of others if you could even say she was alive at all.
"We were subjected to vast criticism and not a little personal abuse from personal colleagues and others whose most frequent cry was that we should not play God and we should not interfere with nature, " he said.
The only thing I can predict with any degree of confidence is a whole lot of unintended consequences and dashed utopian hopes when Western elites decide to play God, raising nations up and pulling them down on no authority but their own.
He made great play of being a God-fearing southern governor who made his living farming peanuts.
Oh, and as far as making planets is concerned, God may not play dice, but He is a mean hand at snooker.
"God doesn't play dice" with the universe, Einstein protested.
He was that odd breed, a reverential rebel, and he was guided by a faith, which he wore lightly and with a twinkle in his eye, in a God who would not play dice by allowing things to happen by chance.
"Thank God I was able to play the game of baseball for so many years, " Rivera added.
"We are fighting Iran, Russia, the party of the devil and the regime, " a Qusayr rebel commander, identified as Abu Ali, said after the attack in a video interview posted online by an activist network called the Qusayr Media Center, making a play on the name Hezbollah, or Party of God.
God, I would love it if I could sing or play something -- but I can't.
Williams recorded both secular and gospel music, but in 1970 he committed to working solely with artists from the Church of the Living God in Toledo, Ohio, where he himself learned how to play pedal steel guitar.
And they like to play the WWE video games, along with hit games like Call of Duty and God of War. 2K Sports is working closely with current and former WWE greats, just as THQ did, to bring the past, present and future of pro wrestling together using the latest video game technology.
FORBES: 2K Sports Officially Gets Into The WrestleMania 29 Ring With Superstar Challenge 2013
" But perhaps the philosopher who best understood the transcendental possibilities of play was Epicurus' forbear, Plato, who wrote: "Man is made God's plaything and that is the best part of him.
Film director Roman Polanski had invited him to a snazzy cafe to talk more about adapting his Tony Award-nominated play "Venus in Fur" into a movie when the pair spotted the chic "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza sitting with a distinguished-looking gentleman.
Needless to say, a play doesn't have to be perfect to be worth seeing, and "The Great God Pan, " for all its defects of craft, is never boring.
WSJ: Persons of Interest | The Great God Pan | Our Town | Theater Review by Terry Teachout
Not only does "The Great God Pan" lack suppleness the plot feels schematic but the play's principal characters are drawn so closely to their new-class type as to suggest a satirical intent that is at odds with the play's emotional weight.
WSJ: Persons of Interest | The Great God Pan | Our Town | Theater Review by Terry Teachout
The name is a play on Hirst's original diamond skull artwork, which bears the name For the Love of God.
"I just hope to God that I can get in there myself, with 11 players on the pitch and to play would be fantastic, " he added.
应用推荐