Famous quotes containing the word governed:
“The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed & governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)