Presides Quotes

#1. Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

Taisen Deshimaru

#2. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

Pope Francis

#3. The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. When you're in love and trying to make someone love you back, you can hear the texture of your own footfalls, the whistling passage of your breath. Invisible eyes monitor you constantly: even at night something presides over the shape of your sleep. Every thought carries a tick or a cross.

Martin Amis

#5. In its critical aspect, the revolutionary movement of our times is primarily a
violent denunciation of the formal hypocrisy that presides over bourgeois society.

Albert Camus

#6. Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

Giordano Bruno

#7. A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Orson Welles

#8. The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides - as it is in the heavens.

Dallas Willard

#9. The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, "the Church which presides in charity", is communion with the Orthodox Churches.

Pope Francis

#10. A president views, interviews, and reviews everything he presides over, if he's doing his job in the correct manner.

David Foster Wallace

#11. All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so; - it may be named in the greatest things.

Lao-Tzu

#12. It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect ...

George Washington

#13. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#14. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

Ramakrishna

#15. Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

Abraham Coles

#16. And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

Grover Cleveland

#17. Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.

Philip Roth

#18. Gu himself presides over the room- a genial, noisy man with the widest, jauntiest, must luxuriant and ambitious mustache I have ever seen, permanently fighting gravity and the razor in its attempts to make contact with Gu's eyebrows.

Peter Mayle

#19. The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

Michael Parenti

#20. What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

Julia Child

#21. I am content in knowing I am as brave as any best that ever lived, if not braver.

L. Frank Baum

#22. Love finds us where we are, not where we were.

Bob Goff

#23. It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

Jim Shepard

#24. Just knock off the horns and hair, and toss it on the coals for about thirty seconds on each side. I like mine still kicking and quivering! -Wichita talking about steak

Ray Palla

#25. I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

Hillary Clinton

#26. We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffer

#27. Once you've gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it's a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it's not around. Or maybe it's just me.

David Burr Gerrard

#28. Before I can respond, he takes his hand from behind his back. Holds it out to me. And I break, into a million invisible pieces.
He looks up from me to the sunflower in his hand and back again. "Um...

Jessi Kirby

#29. Strength is not all about the time that you work out at the gym. You need the heart to truly become one.

Marie Keating

#30. As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

Shirley Chisholm

#31. Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

Charlotte Rampling

#32. On the Brevity of Our Ties
Ties in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.

Kentetsu Takamori

#33. She wished for Ebono as she wished every time she saw Lrrianay at her father's shoulder, or any pegasus at any bond-mate's shoulder, or any pegasus. Or any time she took a breath, she wished again for Ebon.

Robin McKinley