Preside Quotes

40 quotes by 32 authors

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White… — Barbara Bush
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils… — Alexander Hamilton
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective… — Alexander Hamilton
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. — Edward Abbey
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that… — George Washington
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger… — George Washington
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year… — Mark Steyn
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape… — J. G. Ballard
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. — George Washington
A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside… — Tony Benn
Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve… — Bill Hybels
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being… — Eliza Farnham
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate… — William O. Douglas
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline. — Jane Byrne
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided… — Ambrose Bierce

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