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The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches. -- Nizar Qabbani
This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. -- Ann Landers
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed. -- Charles Darwin
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. -- James K. Polk
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! -- Walter Raleigh
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total. -- Swami Vivekananda
The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children. -- William Jennings Bryan
Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. -- James K. Polk
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. -- Brandon Sanderson
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. -- Benjamin Banneker
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was. -- Ray Bradbury
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability. -- William Cabell Rives
I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed." "He is hope." The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart. -- Brandon Sanderson
I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. -- George B. McClellan
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. -- Denis Waitley
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. -- Sun Tzu
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. -- Aristotle
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law. -- Han Fei
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself. -- Han Fei
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler. -- Pope Shenouda III
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. -- Samuel Morse
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. -- Sun Tzu
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. -- Walt Whitman
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. -- Andrew Greeley
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. -- Sun Tzu
Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. -- Robert Collier
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? -- Blaise Pascal
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. -- William Shawcross
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. -- Aristotle
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. -- Paul Feig
A ruler isn't always straight. -- Robert Half
Convention is the ruler of all. -- Pindar
Stillness is the ruler of haste. -- Laozi
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! -- William Cowper
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. -- Aeschylus
The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself. -- Cato the Elder
Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. -- Eric Temple Bell
The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler. -- Tomichan Matheikal
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. -- Frank Herbert
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. -- Ovid
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. -- Laozi
Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler. -- J. A. Jance
Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler. -- Alan Cohen
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler. -- Janet Skeslien Charles
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. -- Sallust
In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost. -- Laozi
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. -- Thomas a Kempis
You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste! -- Ed Wood
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. -- Aristotle
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. -- Catherine the Great
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. -- Seneca the Younger
When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend. -- Saadi
Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler. -- Sun Myung Moon
That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier. -- John Webster
A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one. -- Patricia Briggs
weather is the indisputable ruler of the forest and every living thing in it ... -- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler. -- Muhammad
You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this. -- Truth Devour
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. -- Muhammad
It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men. -- Stefan Zweig
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. -- Steven Erikson
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler. -- Han Fei
An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people. -- Zhuge Liang
The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. -- Pythagoras
Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny. -- Albert Ellis
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. -- Herodotus
Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons. -- Laozi
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty. -- Laozi
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. -- Zhuangzi
Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler. -- Mae West
An immovable object and an unstoppable force don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler. -- Toba Beta
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. -- Ashwin Sanghi
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. -- Aeschylus
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. -- Sun Tzu
If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable. -- C.J. Sansom
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The clichÃ© organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. -- Vaclav Havel
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. -- Han Fei
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? -- Thomas Carlyle
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. -- George W. Bush
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. -- Lev Grossman
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . -- Aristophanes
When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something. -- Rodney Dangerfield
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. -- Knut Hamsun
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. -- Timothy Keller
I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop! -- Aaron Dontez Yates
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. -- Confucius
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. -- Laozi
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. -- George R. R. Martin
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. -- Confucius
When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally. -- Laozi
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him. -- Umar
And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood. -- Knut Hamsun
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. -- Seneca the Younger
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. -- Philip Yancey
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. -- George R. R. Martin
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. -- James Gibbons
Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance. -- Oprah Winfrey
A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth. -- Chanakya
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas... -- Han Fei
What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly -- S. E. Entsua-Mensah
A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances. -- Tony Evans
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. -- Claudius Claudianus
Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him. -- Cardinal Richelieu
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free. -- Pico Iyer

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