Quotes of Reign - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. ”

- John Donne

“ Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. ”

- Unknown

“ Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ”

- Daniel C. Gelman

“ You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ”

- William C. Bryant

“ Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ”

- John Hendrick Bangs

“ The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. ”

- Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

“ To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ He is just as entitled to be underwhelmed by the prospect of reigning over a fourth-class nation as the rest of us are by the prospect of living in it. ”

- Peter Jay

“ When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. ”

- Islom Karimov

“ Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. ”

- James Polk

“ Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ In oratory the will must predominate. ”

- David Hare

“ The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation. ”

- John Dalberg

“ Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. ”

- John Milton

“ Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. ”

- John Milton

“ At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ”

- John Milton

“ And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring, Who bides his time. ”

- James Whitcomb Riley

“ At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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 nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns. ”

- John Milton

“ In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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. ”

- Sri Swami Sivananda

“ The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. ”

- Camille Paglia
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