Top 100 Rule Is Quotes
#1. So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.
Snoop Dogg
#2. A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one ...
Mary Parker Follett
#4. The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.
Fritz Reiner
#5. Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#6. The rule is, "When in doubt, load it out." Of course the more you carry, the greater a toll it takes on your body, the slower you move, the harder it is to react quickly to a threat.
Mark Owen
#7. The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
Gunduz Vassaf
#8. rule is easily observed by removing some of the children of a more fruitful couple to any other family that does not abound so much in them.
Thomas More
#9. The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett
#10. Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.
William Safire
#12. The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
Eleanor Smeal
#13. One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.
Mike Judge
#16. And in improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as 'Yes And'. The term yes and: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.
Maya Rudolph
#17. The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
#18. The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.
Roberto Assagioli
#19. The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in
Paris Hilton
#20. I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
Zach Galligan
#21. I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.
James Stewart
#22. The first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first.
Ben Aaronovitch
#23. Happiness, as a rule, is inversely proportional to intellect.
Sunil Raina
#24. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper
#25. Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus
#26. He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.
Plato
#27. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
Jesse L. Martin
#28. With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
T. S. Eliot
#29. Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
Rumi
#30. The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption - and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.
Glenn Reynolds
#31. To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
#32. The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#33. The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
Anne Tyler
#34. That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
Aristotle.
#35. The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
D.H. Lawrence
#36. My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.
Jamie Oliver
#37. My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
Emilia Clarke
#38. The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.
Ayn Rand
#39. The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little.
C.S. Lewis
#40. I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
Maurice Wilkins
#41. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
#42. Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
Sivananda
#43. If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed.
David R. Hawkins
#44. Actions have consequences ... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle
#45. Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
Paul Johnson
#46. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
Ben Aaronovitch
#48. Though every community is different, my personal rule is pretty much the same: It's O.K. to feel like an idiot going in as long as you don't sound like an idiot coming out.
Katherine Boo
#50. Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
#51. In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.
Hal Duncan
#52. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.
Byllye Avery
#53. There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.
Dale Carnegie
#55. The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.
Richard Feynman
#56. OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
A. M. Rosenthal
#57. The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.
Robert Graves
#58. That's the thing about becoming a family: you gotta melt. You have to keep melting into each other until you become something entirely new. The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#61. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Lewis B. Smedes
#62. There weren't many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that after any engagement, won or lost, you replay it in you mind to see how much you can learn. So that's what I did ...
Hugh Laurie
#63. If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian - if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate - you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.
Brian Christian
#64. It starts off ridiculous and goes downhill from there as we each take a turn. We dance in a way that's only possible when there are no boys around. The rule is not to take yourself seriously, but whoever gets a solo has to keep as straight a face as possible and go for it.
Melina Marchetta
#65. Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.
Nelson Goodman
#66. And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
Tom Allen
#69. To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.
Edward W. Said
#70. The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
Rick Wise
#71. One rule is this: that if the risk of a transaction is very great it should not be considered at all, no matter what profit it offers if it is successful.
Rex Stout
#72. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#73. In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
Lani Guinier
#74. I thought the first rule was do not talk about strip club."
"Depends on who you talk to," Officer Sexy said. "Tonight the first rule is not to strip for your neighbors.
Jody Wallace
#75. My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#76. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Alfred North Whitehead
#77. The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-It on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it.
Helen Simpson
#78. A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that pre-dominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.
W.K. Marriott
#79. My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
Margaret Chase Smith
#80. I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
Andrea Bocelli
#81. My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving
monogram it!
Reese Witherspoon
#82. The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.
Erin McKean
#85. The only rule is that there are no rules.
Del Close
#86. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
Scott Adams
#87. That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am.
Jessica Zafra
#88. A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.
Harry Callahan
#90. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
Joseph Brodsky
#91. A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#92. But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
Alan Thein Durning
#93. No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.
Deepak Chopra
#94. MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout
#95. When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all ... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.
Michael Carbonaro
#96. My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.
Robert K. G. Temple
#97. To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
Elizabeth Montagu
#98. I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
Andie MacDowell
#99. Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world,
unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.
Kartik Mehta
#100. My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
Maureen Johnson
