I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
Kathy Acker

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
Eva Gabor

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
Colin Baker

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
Elizabeth Taylor

I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.
Charlotte Ross

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Morris Raphael Cohen

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
Samuel P. Huntington

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
Kim Y. Sam

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
James Marsters

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
Mark Rydell

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur J. Goldberg

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova

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

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
Thomas Kempis

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Denis Kearney