Interim Governing Council

Famous quotes containing the words interim, governing and/or council:

    “If I be left behind,
    A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
    The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
    And I a heavy interim shall support
    By his dear absence. Let me go with him.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)