Govern Quotes

513 Govern quotes by 381 unique authors

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. — Laurence Sterne
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we… — Helen Thomas
I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their… — Jesse Ventura
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press… — Howard Rheingold
The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven… — Louise GluÌˆck
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will… — Frank Herbert
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man — Mitch Albom
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.… — James Madison
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. — Thomas Fuller
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean… — Daniel Webster
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. — Louise GluÌˆck
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. — James Hilton
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow… — Carl Sagan
In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add… — Bruce C. Hafen
I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard… — Cormac McCarthy
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that… — Oscar Wilde
This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely… — E. M. Forster

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