Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Edward Gibbon

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Nicolas Chamfort

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

Matthew Henry

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Blaise Pascal

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?

Elizabeth I

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Bruce Sterling

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

Immanuel Kant

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Francois Rabelais

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

He had a reign of terror for three decades.

Jose Rizal

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

Paul Valery

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

John Kendrick Bangs

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

Sri Aurobindo

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Thurston Moore

I have to reign myself in a lot.

T. D. Jakes

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.

Richard Branson

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

Alexander Pope

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Charles Baudelaire

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.

Susannah York

Ive struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Andrew Marvell

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns