Quotes About Governed

The problem, the Eastmans told him, was that the Beatles were Apple. They were bound together by the 1967 partnership agreement from which Apple emerged, and worse, that agreement governed aspects of their EMI deal—for example, how they were to be paid. Under the EMI agreement, whatever any of the Beatles recorded was considered "Beatle product," the proceeds paid to Apple.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Sumner asserted that without equality of citizens before the law and full consent of the governed, a government could not be considered republican. It defined a standard that the North no more met than the South.3

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.

There is an interesting difference between a Cat and an Oxford Comma. You see, a Cat has claws at the ends of its paws, and an Oxford Comma is a pause at the end of a clause. It's all a game of claws and paws for a Cat, while an Oxford Comma is governed by clause and pause.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

It is ironical that for all the value we give to the rational, life is primarily governed by the irrational.

We are governed by what you find in the bottom of dead beer glasses that whores have dunked their cigarettes in. The place has not even been swept out yet and they have an amateur pianist beating on the box

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors.

Wit not well govern'd rankles into vice / He to his Jest his Friend will sacrifice!

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

You say I resemble a flower; I partly agree; My brain is governed by black petals of burnt daisies

Sebastian's life was governed by a code of such imperatives. 'I must have pillar-box red pyjamas,' 'I have to stay in bed until the sun works round the windows,' 'I've absolutely got to drink champagne tonight.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed, or as the Americans came to say, whether they as free men could govern themselves.

E***: Our fate is governed by two mummies: that of Lenin in his mausoleum and that of Bentham at University College, London.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that "governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for the moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

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.