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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do. — Baden Powell De Aquino

The world is governed by opinion. — William Ellery Channing

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God. — James Prescott Joule

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives. — Paul Auster

Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights. — Carl Froch

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. — Stephen Covey

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. — Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. — Confucius

Government exists only for the good of the governed. — Pythagoras

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices. — Confucius

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution. — Michel Martelly

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite. — Lucian Of Samosata

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 everlasting right of man. — Thomas Carlyle

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca The Younger

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit. — Dan Simmons

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz. — M.R. Carey

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. — Charles De Secondat

Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God ... Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end. — Eugenia Price

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately

As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. — T. Colin Campbell

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. — Stephen Covey

Your brother is a beslubbering, churlish, hell-governed princox, and I hope one day he gets the beating he deserves for it. (Maggie) — Kinley MacGregor

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. — Tony Snow

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back. — William Greider

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country. — Anand Sharma

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world. — Prince Philip

For the world is only governed by self-interest. — Friedrich Schiller

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies — Henry Kissinger

The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. — Henry Ward Beecher

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. — David Hume

Power that isn't really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled. — Noam Chomsky

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. — Samuel Johnson

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. — Stephen Hawking

At the time I could not see beyond the moral dilemma that is presented to the weak in a world governed by the strong: Break the rules, or perish. — George Orwell

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye. — George Herbert

Fools and the dead are not governed by logic. Survivors are. — Karen Marie Moning

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. — Mo Ibrahim

Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body. — Clement G. Martin

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. — Sam Waterston

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. — Harold Geneen

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else — Kwame Nkrumah

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. — Mona Caird

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon

As we walk around we are like magnets pulling in experiences. The Law of Attraction is governed by the vibration we are in. — Christopher Dines

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. — Ferdinand Buisson

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed. — Aristotle.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. — Mona Caird

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort

But matters of the heart are not governed by time. - Thomas Allen, Jenny Kissed Me! — Thomas Allen

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed — William Penn

Favouritism governed kissage,
Even as it does in this age. — Rudyard Kipling

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more. — Ramez Naam

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are. — Mason Cooley

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 governed by gravity. — Marianne Moore

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time. — Paulo Coelho

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints. — Sue Grafton

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed. — Benjamin Franklin

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants. — William Penn

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato — Sienna Wilder

I've governed from a consistent set of principles — Scott Gessler

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? — Khalil Gibran

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed — Edward Snowden

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. — Richard Hooker

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. — Edward Snowden

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate. — Steven Redhead

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. — Vladimir Lenin

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. — Walter Bagehot

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. — Richard B. Spence

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. — Helen Keller

The degree to which we openly express our feelings should be governed, not by fear of reprisal, but by our commitment to loving others. — Larry Crabb

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. — William Greider

Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. — Steven Pinker

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance. — Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. — Baron De Montesquieu

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone. — William Wordsworth

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — G.K. Chesterton

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. — Karl Marx

All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.; — Tony Parsons

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children! — Andy Serkis

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Woe to that land that's governed by a child. — William Shakespeare

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. — Nicholas Of Cusa

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims. — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi