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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
— Victor Hugo
How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
— Brian Tracy
Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.
— Amitava Kumar
That government that governs least governs best.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
— John Selden
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
— Walter Lippmann
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
— Charles Spurgeon
What governs men is the fear of truth.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
— T.F. Hodge
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
— Albert Bandura
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
— Blaise Pascal
It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.
— David O. McKay
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
— Susan Sontag
At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs - as long as no one is watching, anything goes.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
But it is not reason that governs love.
— Moliere
Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.
— Jeffrey M. Schwartz
A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
— R.J. Rushdoony
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
— Eckhart Tolle
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
— Louis Kronenberger
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
— Oscar Wilde
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
— John Constable
We are soldiers and have nothing to do with politics. I am obedient to whoever governs the country
— Gail Rose Thompson
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
— Thomas Fuller
QUESTION: Who governs the governors?
ANSWER: Entropy. — Frank Herbert
ANSWER: Entropy. — Frank Herbert
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
— Benjamin Franklin
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.
— Susan Sontag
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
— Alfred Armand Montapert
[M]an does not stand above this his necessary conception; on the contrary, it stands above him; it animates, determines, governs him.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
— Charles Baudelaire
He is most powerful who governs himself.
— Seneca The Younger
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The government is worst which governs most.
— James Cook
My head governs my actions, but my heart is leader of the opposition.
— Shelley Michaels
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
— Greg Bear
Imagination governs the world.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
— David Brooks
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
— Polykarp Kusch
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
— Laurence Sterne
They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be. — William Ross Wallace
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be. — William Ross Wallace
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
— Francois Hollande
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
— Themistocles
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
— Augustus William Hare
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
— Pat Robertson
The Law which governs all life is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
— Francis Of Assisi
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
— Meher Baba
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
— Beatrice Webb
The principles of earth are the same law that governs heaven
— Sunday Adelaja
Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.
— Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.
— Benjamin Franklin
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
— Martin Luther
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
— Bill Vaughan
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
— John Milton
The government that governs best, governs best!
— Jon Stewart
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
The best government is that which governs least.
— John L. O'Sullivan
Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
— Christopher Lasch
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
— Anthony Ashley Cooper
Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.
— Katlyn Charlesworth
That government is best that governs not at all.
— Henry David Thoreau
Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.
— Nicholas Culpeper
That government which governs best, governs least.
— Thomas Jefferson
The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.
— Robert Genn
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
— Leonardo Da Vinci