Top 390 Regulate Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

You can't regulate every lab in the world.

Ozone is something that we most definitely have to regulate. It's a very important thing to regulate.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

My idea is, that if capital and labor are left alone they will mutually regulate each other. People who think they can regulate all mankind and get wrong ideas which they believe to be panaceas for every ill cause much trouble to both employers and employees by their interference.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.

The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

OSHA's decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency's expanding conception of its own mission.

To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.

There are some outcomes in finance we don't want, and government should regulate that.

I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

Regulate the breath, be happy, link the mind with the Lord in your heart.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

You can't just let companies self-regulate, and I've gotta think they get that, too.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

We are talking about creating a legal framework to regulate the production, transit and consumption of drugs.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

I always like to play. It is useful for me; I know how to regulate myself.

The money problem facing the country from 1789 to 1896 existed because Congress never exercised is authority to "coin money or regulate the value thereof" - but rather delegated that authority, sometimes by charter and sometimes by default, to the banking system. This despite the provision in the Constitution that charged Congress with the power to 'coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of weight and Measures.'

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

It's important to eat healthy fats to regulate hunger.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but they only regulate in those areas which the Constitution grants it power to regulate.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

I believe there should be enforcement and redevelopment of anti-trust laws that fully regulate the media.

The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.