Ruled Quotes
378 Ruled quotes by 325 unique authors
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The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled…
— Ken Kesey
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And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger.…
— James Clavell
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Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing…
— V.S. Naipaul
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
— W G Sebald
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and…
— Dean Koontz
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,…
— Tom Wolfe
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Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed…
— P. C. Cast
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It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the…
— Terry Pratchett
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There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
— John Steinbeck
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Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way…
— Paul Brunton
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He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
— Patrick Süskind
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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
— Rick Yancey
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
— Jack London
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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards.…
— Martha Gellhorn
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...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker,…
— Linda Howard
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In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.…
— George R. R. Martin
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He’s not like you, Tod. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, you tend to think things through, but Nash is ruled by his heart—
— Rachel Vincent
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Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the…
— Richard Dawkins
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is…
— Alexandre Dumas
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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can…
— Frank Herbert
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J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit,…
— Libba Bray
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the…
— William P. Young
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She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world…
— Philippa Gregory
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Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?' 'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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