Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

The world is governed by opinion.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Our ancient yogis and sages were not just medical healers, but systems scientists and systems engineers, who saw the body and the universe as an interconnected engineering system, a system of systems that are governed by fundamental engineering systems principles.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.