Reign Quotes

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.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

True and false fears let us refrain, 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.

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

The Lord is our God, our judge, and our king, and He shall reign over us.

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns.

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

Where there is no Jesus, evil always reigns.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.