It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.
I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention. . . It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.
. . . the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease.
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn't make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.
The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.