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

- Elizabeth Taylor

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

- Theodor Mommsen

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

- Tommy Chong

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

- Thomas a Kempis

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

- Joe Baca

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

- Jeremy Rifkin

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

- John Malkovich

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

- Friedrich Schiller

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

- Aristotle

The Palestinian Authority is ruled by Hamas, an organization committed to vehement anti-Semitism, the glorification of terror, and the total destruction of Israel.

- Ehud Olmert

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

- Dev Anand

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

- David Russell

I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out.

- Dwayne Johnson

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

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

- CeeLo Green

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

- Bruce Dickinson

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

- Bodhidharma

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

- Aleksandr Lebed