Reign Quotes

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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

- Camille Paglia

Once I found that out, I instituted a reign of terror on Robert Evans. I called him every day. I went over to his house twice again, uninvited.

- Gregory Hines

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I`ve played tough so much.

- Izabella Scorupco

(When Bielsa was in charge, he looked unlikely to join that trio: Bielsa preferred Claudio Lopez and Batistuta, whose partnership with Crespo never took off. The final stages of the coach`s reign coincided with a long absence for Crespo from the national side. Pekerman has restored him to the lineup and reaped the benefits.) I don`t feel like I`ve booked my place for the World Cup yet, ... Experience tells me that right up until the last moment nobody gives you any presents.

- Hernán Crespo

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

- Pope Benedict XVI

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.

- Kelly Miller

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

- Kelly Miller

The answer, I learned, is quite simple: Iraq did not have a police force that you or I would recognize during the long reign of Saddam Hussein.

- John Boehner

I have to reign myself in a lot.

- Thurston Moore

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

- Victor Hugo

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

- Joshua Reynolds

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. 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, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

- A. Townsend Peterson

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

- Alberto Santos Dumont

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.

- Alfonso Cusi

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

- Alfredo Alonso

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

- Alton Greene

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

- Amy Kemp

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

- Andre Seymour

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

- Andreu Guarneri

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.

- Andrew Kaplan

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

- Angie Brown

The (French) people don`t dislike (Armstrong). But there are certain elements of the French press that have always gone after him throughout his reign. But they`ve never proven a thing. It`s always been circumstantial. I don`t believe he takes drugs.

- Avery Cutshaw

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to 'put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting'�.

- Terry Pratchett