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Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man. -- William Shakespeare
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. -- Edward Young
The king reigns but does not govern. -- Louis Adolphe Thiers
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. -- Sivananda
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. -- Francois Rabelais
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. -- Oscar Wilde
So long as confusion reigns, there will be no successful global Internet agenda, only contradiction. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us. -- Henry David Thoreau
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. -- John Milton
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. -- Robert Byrd
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. -- Richard Leakey
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. -- Herbert Spencer
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns. -- Ben Nelson
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. -- Bob Riley
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. -- Philip Guedalla
Heaven is a very distinct place, where only God's elect will go. It's the place where the only One who deserves any glory lives and reigns. -- Monica Johnson
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. -- Francis Bacon
Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector. -- Lapo Elkann
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. -- Alfred de Vigny
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king. -- Annie Besant
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. -- Swami Sivananda
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.' -- Adoniram Judson
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. -- Ben Carson
I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me. -- Katie Aselton
Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
Where violence reigns, reason is weak. -- Nicolas Chamfort
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. -- Laura Hillenbrand
When ignorance reigns, life is lost -- Zack de la Rocha
Cognition reigns but does not rule. -- Paul Valery
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -- William Shakespeare
The king reigns but does not govern. -- Louis Adolphe Thiers
Conscience reigns but it does not govern. -- Paul Valery
No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns -- Andrew Marvell
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart. -- Thomas Otway
Where there is no Jesus, evil always reigns. -- Phil Robertson
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws. -- Plato
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns! -- Tom Peters
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. -- Sivananda
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. -- Alexander Pope
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives! -- James A. Garfield
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. -- Philip Sidney
The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. -- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns. -- Matthew Henry
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns. -- Honore de Balzac
The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells. -- Thomas S. Monson
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. -- Hannah More
The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. -- Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. -- Carl Jung
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance. -- Hudson Taylor
What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains. -- Sir John Davies
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest. -- Hudson Taylor
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Fury reigns down on those who ignore in the wisdom of fear itself. -- Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties. -- Catherine McAuley
Noise triÂumphs and reigns supreme over the senÂsiÂbilÂity of men. -- Luigi Russolo
I am immortal until God's work for me to do is done. The Lord reigns. -- Henry Martyn
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave. -- Saint Augustine
To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king! -- Stephen R. Lawhead
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. -- Bill Vaughan
If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior. -- Catherine McAuley
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. -- Ovid
Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time. -- Werley Nortreus
There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives. -- Smith Wigglesworth
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. -- William Shakespeare
You can always find hope in the truth that our God reigns & He will take care of His own. -- Jim George
If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe -- Sunday Adelaja
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! -- Victor Hugo
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns. -- Dean Koontz
We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down -- William J. Clinton
Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. -- Lionel Johnson
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. -- James A. Garfield
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. -- John Milton
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." -- James Dobson
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God. -- Jose Rizal
The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss. -- Henry Ware, Jr.
Sexual chaos reigns currently, but out of chaos may flow true understanding and harmony, and either way Elvis almost singlehandedly opened the floodgates. -- Lester Bangs
The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me. -- Eric Liddell
It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns. -- Epicharmus of Kos
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns. -- Ben Nelson
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender -- Philip Guedalla
My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns Unending love, amazing grace! -- Chris Tomlin
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame. -- Jonathan Swift
I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns. -- Keith Murray
Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse. -- Isaac Watts
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority. -- T. D. Jakes
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns. -- Roseanne Barr
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. -- Thomas Paine
At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. -- Eric Chaisson
In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today. -- Richard Branson
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided. -- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair. -- Ichabod Spencer
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. -- Luigi Russolo
Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me. -- Kenneth Oppel
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns -- John Milton
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, Your God reigns!Isaiah 52:7 -- Bible Verses
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. -- Edmund Burke
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted. -- Marina Warner
One brain's blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. (152) -- Thomas Lewis
There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle. -- Henry Thomas Hamblin
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come. -- Samuel Adams
Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? -- C. S. Lewis
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed? -- Blaise Pascal
Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales. -- Marcel Proust
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme. -- Milan Kundera
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. -- Charles Baudelaire
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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