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It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people.
— Philip K. Dick
If there be a single law governing the actions of men, freewill cannot exist, for man's will would be subject to that law.
— Leo Tolstoy
Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
— Elbert Hubbard
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
— Andrew Taylor Still
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.
— Joan Robinson
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
— Calvin Coolidge
I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
— Tony Abbott
What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
— Hugo Chavez
You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe.
— Wallace D. Wattles
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
— Louisa May Alcott
War is the absence of law, yet there are so many rules governing it. My enemy never obeyed any rules.
— David Bowman
Connection was the cement of the governing class.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
— James F. Cooper
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
— Stephen Ambrose
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
— Albert J. Beveridge
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
— Estelle Morris
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
— Betty Williams
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
— Joseph Campbell
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
— Vladimir Lenin
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
— Hugo Chavez
Evidently not. They are just governing
— Rafael Sabatini
For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.
— David McCullough
And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.
— B.R. Ambedkar
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
— Michel De Montaigne
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
— Nat King Cole
Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
— Chris Hayes
The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.
— Jay Wright Forrester
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
— Thomas Jefferson
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
— Elliott Abrams
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.
— Katherine Neville
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
— Leo Tolstoy
It was futile class of people who discussed not merely science and poetry but even the ways of governing men
— Leo Tolstoy
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
— Charles Dickens
There is no law governing all things.
— Giordano Bruno
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
— Scott McClellan
Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.
— Condoleezza Rice
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.
— Augusto Pinochet
Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...
— Gertrude Stein
I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.
— Rona Ambrose
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
— Ferdinand Foch
There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.
— Larry Merchant
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
— Woodrow Wilson
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
— Oren Lyons
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.
— Chris Anderson
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
— Frank Carlucci
He'd concluded that not only should females have the right to vote, they should probably be governing the whole darn country.
— Debra Holland
state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
— George W. Bush
Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.
— Steven Redhead
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
The unknown is the governing principle of war.
— Ferdinand Foch
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
— Beth Simone Noveck
Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do:
— Martin E.P. Seligman
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.
— Genghis Khan
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
— Alexander Hamilton
The field is the sole governing agency of the particle
— Albert Einstein
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
— Marcus Aurelius
If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.
— Ronald Reagan
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The way you think is the driving force that fashions your world thereby governing the kind of life that you live.
— Steven Redhead
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life ...
— Barbara Tuchman
We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything ... so who knows what the future will hold?
— Rostam Batmanglij
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
— Thomas Paine
Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology.
— Mark R. Levin
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
— Ian Hacking
