Quotes About Rule

When you rule, you gain knowledge of power. This can lead into impetuous irresponsibility, into painful excesses and that can lead to the terrible destroyer-wild hedonism.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

It's a rule of ecology," Kynes said, "that the young Master appears to understand quite well. The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system. Blood's an efficient energy source.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

I must rule with eye and claw—as the hawk among lesser birds.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule. And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.

You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters.

There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

Exhibía una expresión tan seria a la luz de la luna… Como si de verdad creyese que en el mundo reina la justicia, que a las buenas personas les suceden cosas buenas y que lo contrario solo es la excepción que confirma la regla.

In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule

respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

From then on, this would remain the official title, in Greek, of every ruler to rule from Constantinople

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

a sense Heraclius was the last emperor to rule over the people who still called themselves 'Romans'.

that had ruled there between about 1600 and 1450 BCE.

It is far better for a country to remain under the rule of Islam than be governed by Christians who refuse to acknowledge the rights of the Catholic Church. Pope Gregory VII, 1073