Quotes About Ruler

As incandescent as was her personality, Cleopatra was every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist, though what passed on his part as strategy would be remembered on hers as manipulation.

To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.

Meine Bücherei ist mein Königreich, und hier versuche ich als absoluter Herrscher zu regieren.

The way the terrorists in our time can be made to believe they are eternal if they die for the cause of their ruler.

And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.

Of all the tiresome situations in the world, thought the Prince Regent, the most tiresome was to rise from one's bed in a state of uncertainty as to whether or not one was the ruler of Great Britain.

A man as talented and handsome as yourself ought not be a servant!" he said in a shocked tone. "He ought to be the ruler of a vast estate! What is beauty for, I should like to know, if not to stand as a visible sign of one's superiority to everyone else? But I see how it is! Your enemies have conspired together to deprive you of all your possessions and to cast you down among the ignorant and lowly!

He was a god, the greatest of those who ruled two-leggers, but he was no Chaos queen. Her supply of awed terror was used up for today.

She bowed herself almost to the ground before Sarmur's daughter, with the flamboyant courtesy of one who secretly rules the kingdom.

I'm the most powerful person on the planet.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Narasimha Varmar, who single-handedly crushed Pulikesi, a man who ruled an Empire from Narmadha in the north to Thungabhadhra in the south—and even erected a column of victory in Vathapi?

An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.

Visit?" Yeden asked uncomfortably. "You're going to visit the Lord Ruler? Are you insa..." Yeden trailed off, then glanced at the rest of the room. "Right. I forgot.

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

Assassinating the Lord Ruler?" Wax asked. "Isn't that a little violent for a children's book?" "Mate," Wayne said, "it ain't violence if it's religion. Don't you know anythin'?

factly they regarded the issues. How could they even think of resisting the Lord Ruler? He was … well, he was the Lord. He ruled all of the world. He was the creator, protector, and punisher of mankind. He had saved them from the Deepness, then had brought the ash and the mists as a punishment for the people's lack of faith.

With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.

The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants an impossible world in which he is the uncrowned puppet ruler dominated by forces utterly beyond his control.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn

You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.' 'Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!]

And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.