Ungovernable Quotes

#1. The world is an increasingly dangerous, troubled place. There are nations that seem to be ungovernable. Nations where violence and religious combat are as common as the sunrise.

Mike Barnicle

#2. One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Joe Slovo

#3. The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

Carrie Brownstein

#4. The day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#5. Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.

Agatha Christie

#6. The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

Ovid

#7. In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Rory Stewart

#8. Sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia;

Jane Austen

#9. He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.

Flann O'Brien

#10. Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

The Economist

#11. For us all, the world is disorderly and dangerous; ungoverned, and apparently ungovernable. The questions arise: Who will restore order? Who can counter the danger of nuclear holocaust? Who alone can govern the world? The only answer is Jesus Christ!

Billy Graham

#12. Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.

John Hadac

#13. The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Larry King

#14. Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. I pictured myself the Queen of Hearts as sort of embodiment of ungovernable passion - a blind and aimless Fury

Lewis Carroll

#16. Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

John Adams

#17. I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

Tom Stoppard

#18. Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Juvenal

#19. Two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant,

Jane Austen

#20. Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

John Muir

#22. All tyrants were harsh, but fire was more ungovernable than most.

Gregory Maguire

#23. My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.

Jane Austen

#24. Really? Paul Ryan truly prefers that a narcissistic, ignorant, ungovernable, unqualified, race-baiting, misogynistic moron becomes our next president?

Richard North Patterson

#25. Francis Crawford's face in this fleeting moment of privacy was filled with ungovernable feeling: of shock and of pain and of a desire beyond bearing: the desire of the hart which longs for the waterbrook, and does not know, until it sees the pool under the trees, for what it has thirsted.

Dorothy Dunnett

#26. I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Sandra Bernhard

#27. In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment. Much

G.K. Chesterton

#28. The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

#29. in order to be an effective communicator: you must be a keen listener and a keen observer. Let

Alex Malley

#30. I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

Jacques Lipchitz