ruler quotes

But thou, Bethlehem, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Micah 5:2.

His lord said unto him,Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will maketheerulerover many things: enter thou intothejoy of thy lord.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 25:21.

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  HMS Pinafore, act1.

When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  HMS Pinafore, act 2.

   Operationally,God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

- SirJulian Sorell Huxley
  Religion  without Revelation (rev edn), ch.3.