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Wise Quotes about Governed

May you find great value in these Governed quotes and sayings.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

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I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

In all things and in all ways,
choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
It bears repeating that even those things
which seem out of reach of our choice
are governed by how we choose to perceive them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher


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The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
- Edward Snowden

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham

There is an orderliness in the universe,
there is an unalterable law governing everything
and every being that exists or lives.
It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern
the conduct of living beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

 

I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson

No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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