Govern Quotes

513 Govern quotes by 381 unique authors

Fortune and humor govern the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It… — G I Gurdjieff
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. — Michel de Montaigne
Grammar, which can govern even Kings. — Moliere
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats. — Harry Browne
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed… — Francois Jacob
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern… — Edmund Burke
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading… — Abraham Lincoln
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... — Evo Morales
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into… — Strom Thurmond
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around… — William Carlos Williams
. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about.… — Ernest Holmes
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him. — John C. Maxwell
You may own a cat, but cannot govern one. — Unknown Author
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. — Nigel Lawson
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is… — A.J. Ayer
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason… — Khalil Gibran
There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues. — Unknown Author

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