I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power.
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
True is the saying: 'In order to make the world tranquil and happy, the nation must first be well governed!'
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Democracy demands that judges confine themselves to a narrow sphere of influence - that is why the late Alexander Bickel called the judiciary the 'Least Dangerous Branch.' In a world governed by a proper conception of their role, judges don't play at being legislators - they leave that job to our elected representatives.
In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which is translated as 'the Great Order.' It was an era when the Mongols strove to establish a new world order, thus, justice, peace and cooperation in their relations with other states and peoples.
