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If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler. — Haruki Murakami

Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks. — Alex Rutherford

For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule. — T.F. Hodge

Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler. — Janet Skeslien Charles

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. — Paul J. Meyer

Asking about someone's animal is the shifter equivalent of pulling a ruler and asking a guy to whip it out. — Chloe Neill

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. — Thomas Jefferson

The man who looks to nature for God ends with a riddle instead of with God — Arnold Albert Van Ruler

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. — Edward Abbey

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth. — Chanakya

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. — Bertolt Brecht

The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches. — Nizar Qabbani

A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. — Han Fei

hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore, — Niccolo Machiavelli

Aldrik - the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer - was only a man. And men could be broken. — Elise Kova

Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler. — J. A. Jance

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god. — Adolf Hitler

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists? — Krishna Udayasankar

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. — Ashwin Sanghi

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. — Seneca The Younger

Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe. — Marilynne Robinson

There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty - when serving a ruler wasn't about obedience and fear. — Sarah J. Maas

He would only admit a word, or an action, into a play when it satisfied some internal ruler. He made sure everything counted. — Imraan Coovadia

The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion. — Danielle Paige

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — George R R Martin

If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom. — Art Hochberg

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people! — Janny Wurts

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. — Muhammad

Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler. — Mae West

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. — Seneca The Younger

A ruler isn't always straight. — Robert Half

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.
Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.
Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone. — Sophocles

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period. — Chanakya

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. — George R R Martin

I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight. — Haruki Murakami

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. — Aeschylus

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. — Frank Herbert

Shen Nung was more than just a ruler. To that end, his name's English translation is "divine farmer. — Josh Chetwynd

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. — S.D. Smith

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste! — Ed Wood

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. — Lev Grossman

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. — Immanuel Kant

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Conn Iggulden

Mariam longed to place a ruler on a page and draw important-looking lines — Khaled Hosseini

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. — Han Fei

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. — Thomas A Kempis

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. — E. T. Bell

Once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech, — Tana French

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? — Thomas Carlyle

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances. — Tony Evans

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. — Ovid

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess. — Tony Evans

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free. — Pico Iyer

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. — George W. Bush

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat. — Julian Huxley

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions. — Israelmore Ayivor

My girlfriend just bought a ruler from Smiths. Heaven knows I'm measurable now. — Sixth Form Poet

When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something. — Rodney Dangerfield

Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler? — Gregory Maguire

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolo Machiavelli

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled — Aristotle.

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule.. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you. — Robert Jordan

Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope. — Christopher Bollen

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever. — Meles Zenawi

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The continued reading led to her second conclusion: The Lord Ruler was far more whiny than any god had a right to be. When — Brandon Sanderson

Using science to prove religion is like using a ruler to measure love. — Rick Julian

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt. — Leanda De Lisle

My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served. — Anita Diamant

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings. — George R R Martin

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. — Frank Herbert

The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler. — George R R Martin

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei

They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there. — Frank Zappa

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. — Aristotle.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. — Charlotte M. Mason

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id. — Karen Marie Moning

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler. — Alan Cohen

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him. — Cardinal Richelieu

Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel. — Marguerite Yourcenar

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage. — Sunday Adelaja

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board. — Jasper Johns

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius. — Antoine Rivarol

There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him... — Sarah J. Maas

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one. — Patricia Briggs

No ruler can make a people good. — George R R Martin

The wiser a king is,
the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. — James Gibbons

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. — Catherine The Great

The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion. — Marcus Aurelius

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared. — Matshona Dhliwayo