Governing Quotes

228 quotes by 197 authors

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level… — David Axelrod
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a… — Jean Baudrillard
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. — Pope Benedict XVI
There is no law governing all things. — Giordano Bruno
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. — Louisa May Alcott
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. — Hugo Chavez
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making… — Dick Cheney
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. — Stephen Ambrose
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine
Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than… — P.G. Wodehouse
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in… — Abraham Lincoln
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting… — John Flavel
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. — Laozi
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan

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