Reign Quotes

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

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.

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.

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

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I will reign over a new world!

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

I think I will always have a place. I don't think I have to rule or reign but there's a place for me.