Governs

Famous quotes containing the word governs:

“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
—Themistocles (c. 528–c. 462 B.C.)

“But this is neither here nor there—why do I mention it?—Ask my pen,—it governs me,—I govern not it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)