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The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.


Alexander Pope

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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
RICHARD WHATELY And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.
ALEXANDER POPE Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either you...
KAHLIL GIBRAN School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years...
DONNA BRAZILE Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sa...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The...
ALEXANDER POPE And then what are your plans?”
Annwyl frowned. “My plans?”
“Yes. Your plans. You...
G.A. AIKEN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life i...
BELL HOOKS Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than pa...
ZAMAN ALI The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...
KARL MARX We're pleased about the ruling, but it's a complicated ruling and we need to take more time to go th...
TOM HYMES The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD It would be a big surprise if the ruling coalition didn't get a majority.
MASAAKI KANNO The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
KARL MARX We're disappointed in the ruling, but we don't expect that ruling to affect the case.
CAROLINE PECQUET What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing'...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplom...
DOUGLAS FEITH It was devastating. We're gratified and pleased with the ruling.
TIM BANNON The ruling is grotesque and political. What will be next? Will the Italians demand that pizza become...
HANS BENDER Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE It still remains to be seen if the results indicate a criticism of the ruling coalition, or appealin...
YOMIURI SHIMBUN This could be an important first step toward undermining (the 2003 ruling) without overruling it.
RICHARD HASEN Reason over passion.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Reason is the slave of passion.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
EMILE M. CIORAN Do what you love & do it with passion . Passion is the fire that lights your way.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let passion be the reason of your existence & resultant success the reward.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting di...
DOUGLAS FEITH It's like the old saying about racing - where else can you make a living and still call it a game? I...
DEAN DE RENZO Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken...
ROBERT GRAVES Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken...
ROBERT GRAVES What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking t...
JOHN BOORMAN He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you...
NIKKI ROWE The law is reason, free from passion.
ARISTOTLE The law is reason free from passion
ARISTOTLE This ruling goes against all law ... It is scandalous,
HANS BENDER Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
JOHN RUSKIN The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power
JOHN RUSKIN The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to
derive a permanent fut...
FREDERICK SODDY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
ALBERT CAMUS My guess is it may be harder to bring about a conviction after this ruling.
ROY SMITH Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.
CHARLES HODGE The passion for techno is older than techno itself. The passion for drums is older than their invent...
DAN VAN CASTEELE Judge Jackson's ruling contains no legal analysis. I thought the judge would explain why his order w...
ROBERT LANDE There are many reasons. The timing just hasn't worked out at all. I'm totally ruling it out for this...
GREGORY SKORDAS We shall be taking legal steps to overturn the court's ruling.
BERNHARD SCHWANK Obviously, we're disappointed with the ruling.
CHRISTOPHER DUNN We strongly disagree with the ruling,
DAVID BARR Your ruling is incorrect and inappropriate. When the earlier address is before the House and remains...
DHARAM SINGH The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a ...
CATHERINE ARNOLD The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. It (the U.K. ruling) is a nice...
CATHERINE ARNOLD Rest in reason; move in passion
KHALIL GIBRAN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D. H. LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say,...
D H LAWRENCE Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, a...
D.H. LAWRENCE Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Concorde still arouses the same passion,
JEAN-CYRIL SPINETTA We accept the judge's ruling and will proceed to defend the case in state court.
GAIL RYMER We're not ruling things out. We're looking at what needs to be done to address problems.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
WILLIAM GODWIN He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Until your passion for the good your products or services will perform in consumers life,exceed your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The ruling will open up the competition somewhat among [competitive local exchange carriers] ... But...
MICHAEL ERBSCHLOE It's all for the passion of it. I'll keep doing it just for the passion of it.
ADEL DESSOUKY If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA We are dismayed at the court ruling.
SHYAM CHAINANI Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir......
JOSS WHEDON Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will sti...
JOSS WHEDON Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willi...
JOHN SCHNEIDER The report confirms what we have always said that the ruling party thrives on violence.
LOVEMORE MADHUKU The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...
KARL MARX If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We're going to have to take a careful look at the judge's ruling and consult with the department bef...
JON PECK All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
REBECCA SOLNIT What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
ROLAND BARTHES What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
ROLAND BARTHES We hope that with this ruling the county will settle down and leave us alone.
TOM MCCLURE The passion will be there until the very end.
LISA VITIELLO We all talked about it. We're flying them because we weren't happy with the ruling.
JOE MANTUA Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you
HORACE We cannot talk about having relationship with God if sin is still ruling over our life
SUNDAY ADELAJA Given pressure from the government and the ruling party, the Bank of Japan will be forced to maintai...
AKIO MAKABE It became clear in the months leading up to the ruling (Mumford was) violating the transfer provisio...
DEBBIE RATCLIFFE Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without pa...
TONI SORENSON It will be up to the SSAC to make the ruling and the determination. Mount View said because of the d...
DICK STURM [The ruling] does chill linking and, in the long run, it chills the Internet. Certainly linking will...
WENDY SELTZER Our office of general council will work with the judge to determine how FEMA will respond to the rul...
DEBBIE WING I think it will be hard to get people to vote until there is some differentiation between the state,...
WAEL KHALIL Let failuers be your reason to strengthen your determination and passion to succeed.
VISHWAS CHAVAN It shows the ruling is basically going to be the government's proposed order, consisting of a two-wa...
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ALEXANDER POPE Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
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