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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
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
— Janet Skeslien Charles
the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The man who looks to nature for God ends with a riddle instead of with God
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.
— Charles F. Glassman
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
— Yitzhak Rabin
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 incarnation is the Biblical bulwark against the false spiritualization of Christianity
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
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
What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?
— Krishna Udayasankar
I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'
— Johnny Depp
stillness, the ruler of movement.
— Lao-Tzu
Help me. Fight for me. And I will be the first ruler in the history of Luna who will also fight for you.
— Marissa Meyer
We can rely on the righteous Ruler.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
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
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
No ruler can make a people good.
— George R R Martin
And love became the world's beginning and the world's ruler; but all its ways are full of flowers and blood, flowers and blood.
— Knut Hamsun
Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn't in the job.
— Terry Pratchett
A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
— Patricia Briggs
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
Composure is the ruler of instability.
— Lao-Tzu
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
A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
— Sunday Adelaja
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
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
— Laozi
Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.
— Geert Hofstede
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
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
What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
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
Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
— Ann Landers
Fear and ignorance are the strongest weapons any ruler can wield.
— Sara B. Larson
A ruler isn't always straight.
— Robert Half
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
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
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
I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
— Nenia Campbell
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
She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.
— J.J. McAvoy
A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas ...
— Han Fei
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
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
Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.
— Davey Havok
Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.
— Christopher Bollen
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
Rosario is safe. You were supposed to outlive me. Elisa is ten times the ruler you were. I've stolen your wife. I'm not sorry.
I miss you. — Rae Carson
I miss you. — Rae Carson
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
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
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
You must think I'm an awful ruler. One of those spoiled, selfish queens who cares more for her own reputation than the welfare of her people.
— Marissa Meyer
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
Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed.
— F.F. White
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
— Catherine The Great
Volnero as the new ruler of Ondalina or Miromara obliterates our entire realm. I will advise Ragnar to accept her terms.
— Jennifer Donnelly
The banquet of eternal glory is made out of the ingredients of time.
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no friendship between kings.
— Jayne Castel
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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
The wiser a king is,
the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is. — Matshona Dhliwayo
the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
— Confucius
A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
— Annie Besant
Donald - ruler Donovan
— Emily MacLeod