Governed Quotes
422 Governed quotes by 322 unique authors
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I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
— William Greider
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When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of…
— Saint Augustine
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The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word…
— George Mikes
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If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is…
— Charles Hodge
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Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there…
— Julian Baggini
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the…
— Peter Ackroyd
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those…
— Samuel Adams
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I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
— Bob Dylan
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...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For…
— Xenophanes
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The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around…
— Ray Kurzweil
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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence,…
— Jean-Pierre Melville
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Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?
— Khalil Gibran
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The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of…
— Raymond B. Fosdick
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I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have…
— Francois Arago
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That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by…
— Tycho Brahe
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is…
— Marianne Moore
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the…
— Thomas Carlyle
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God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and…
— John Dryden
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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
— Henry Fielding
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In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.
— Sigmund Freud
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
— Baron de Montesquieu
Who Wrote These Governed Quotes
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