Top 100 Rule Number Quotes
#2. I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.
Carlos Mesa
#3. Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward
J.R. Ward
#4. Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.
I don't fear death.
I've already died too many times before.
I'm a cat with nine lives and I'm already on number twelve. I'm living on borrowed time. When death wants to take me, it'll take me.
J.M. Darhower
#5. I demand to break rule number #5
I demand to kiss her today. Right now, even.
A.S. King
#6. Rule number six: no promises."
"Okay", I agree easily. "No promises, ever."
"Promise?" he asks.
"Promise."
"And that's it."
"That's the only one.
Mary Elizabeth
#7. Echo lived her life according to two rules, the first of which was simple: don't get caught.
........ Some rules it would seam were meant to be broken..........
Rule number two, Echo thought snagging a pork bun from a food stall as she sailed past it. If you do get caught, run.
Melissa Grey
#8. There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.
J. B. Smoove
#9. I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number ... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Dan Webster
#10. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. Rule number one: your accounts must always present a true and factual picture of your business operations.' 'And what's the other rule?' asked Arvind. 'Rule number two is to occasionally forget rule number one.
Ashwin Sanghi
#12. The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
#14. Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Kristen Ashley
#15. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith
#16. The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean
#18. Rule number something or other
never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
Sara Paretsky
#19. The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.
James Lankford
#20. Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
Vivian Vande Velde
#21. I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry."
"Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
Chris D'Lacey
#22. New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me!
Bill Maher
#23. OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.
Karen Walker
#24. I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?
Laura Kightlinger
#25. In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.
Leo Durocher
#26. Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.
David Hayter
#27. Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.
The Velominati
#28. The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two.
Rick Yancey
#29. Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#30. I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.
Andrew Bird
#31. They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
Sebastian Faulks
#32. Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.
Tana French
#33. Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
Brian Tracy
#34. Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.
Mary Matalin
#35. The number one rule of the Internet: People are lazy. If you don't include a link, no one can click it. Attribution without a link online borders on useless: 99.9 percent of people are not going to bother Googling someone's name.
Austin Kleon
#36. Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Neil Gaiman
#37. As much as I hated to admit it, Ami was right. Rule number two of lying is to make it as airtight as possible. Which just goes back to rule number one: never get caught.
Alicia Thompson
#38. The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
Thomas Sowell
#39. Simplicity matters. Especially when it comes to the muscle memory of boxing. That is perhaps rule number one. Simplicity works. Simplicity is repetition. Repetition is function. Boil function down to one action, maybe two. Left or right. Simplicity. Simplicity is really the hardest thing.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#40. Rule number one about your mate: he is completely wrong until you decide he is not.
Quinn Loftis
#41. I decided that every rule in the Hills Village Middle School Code of Conduct should be worth a certain number of points, depending on how hard it was to break. Of course, this meant I could get into some serious trouble, so I decided to make that worth a bunch of points too.
James Patterson
#42. Rule number one of crime scene work: If it's wet and sticky and it ain't yours, don't touch it.
-Terry Cooper, crime scene specialist, Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Beverly Connor
#43. rule number eight: noting ventured, nothing gained
Mitali Perkins
#44. Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#45. Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis
#46. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.
Ric Thompson
#47. Great is the art,
Great be the manners, of the bard.
He shall not his brain encumber
With the coil of rhythm and number;
But, leaving rule and pale forethought,
He shall aye climb
For his rhyme.
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.
Phyllis Bentley
#49. Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Mike Davies
#50. I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.
Charity Ferrell
#51. While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
Margaret Thatcher
#53. Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.
Poe Ballantine
#54. Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
Ari Graynor
#55. The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.
Peter Lynch
#57. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child.
Mark Lawrence
#58. Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
Candace Bushnell
#59. Never say goodbye" he demands. His smile fades. "I'm making my own Rules, Never say goodbye, that's rule number one
Rachel Robinson
#60. Yeah. Book nerd rule number three: never ever, leave an unfinished book at home.
J.J. McAvoy
#61. He turned to look at the door and narrowed his eyes. So, Rule Number One, apparently, was that he wasn't allowed to crack a smile during foreplay. "Got it," he muttered to himself as he pulled his shirt over his head and tossed it to the side before stepping up to the door and throwing it open.
Abigail Roux
#62. That's because you hate parties," said Trevor. I corrected him. "I hate parties with more than 16 people, remember? It's an exact science," Trevor chuckled, the sound hitting me right in the pit of my stomach."The 16 person rule, I remember now. You were always specific about that number
L. H. Cosway
#63. But he's also not your only client! Rule number one in business is to not ever let the big dog know how small the other dogs are.
Christina Lauren
#64. Rule number one, never put your heart over your hustle and rule number two, never break rule number one.
Dream Collins
#65. I don't think anyone's had the stranger danger talk with him. Because rule number one is that you don't jump into strange unmarked vans with the bad guys,
T.M. Frazier
#66. They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.
Zach Braff
#67. Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Rule number one for not being creepy," she says. "Announce your presence in a room if another person doesn't see you come in.
Veronica Roth
#69. Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases.
Arriane: Rule number two - don't listen to me!
Lauren Kate
#70. The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.
Kris Kristofferson
#71. Rule number one. The good guys always win.
Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.
Charles S. Faddis
#72. Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!
Thomas Paine
#74. Some day I would like to write a textbook on how to be a female detective in a man's world. Rule Number One: try not to let your animosity show. Your career as an investigator will be short lived if you cannot hide your feelings when you dislike, distrust, or despise your interviewee.
Frances Brody
#75. That men will perish and women will rule the earth?" Hannah replied. "Sorry, wrong number. For that request, you'll need to ring the department in charge of flying pigs. Do you want me to transfer you? I think they're busy at the moment working on a snowstorm in hell.
Dannika Dark
#76. Will you break rule number two with me, Tate? Because I really want to marry you.
Colleen Hoover
#77. Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
Lisa Scottoline
#78. Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
Marion Ross
#79. Rule number one in adapting - control the situation at hand before it has a chance to control you.
Maggi Myers
#80. Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!
Lauren Kate
#81. Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.
Nicky Charles
#82. There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.
Duke Ellington
#83. Make me proud my little first-grader" he said, fist pumping robbie "and, remember rule number one above all"
"Right" he replies "don't talk politics
Jenny B. Jones
#84. The number one Runner rule: Never. Stop. Running
James Dashner
#85. Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem ... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.
Claire McCaskill
#86. Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to.
When you have to.
Malorie Blackman
#87. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.
Kristen Ashley
#88. Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
J. Michael Straczynski
#89. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
Carew Papritz
#90. So, Rule Number One, apparently, was that he wasn't allowed to crack a smile during foreplay. Got it
Madeleine Urban
#91. Bonner leans his forehead against hers. Zig when they think you'll zag. Creation's Rule Number Two.
What's Number One? Els asks, willing to be this bent soul's straight man.
Zag when they think you'll zig.
Richard Powers
#92. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#93. If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
Barton Gellman
#94. Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don't screw it up by looking like you're as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.
Jim Butcher
#95. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
#96. Rule number one of monster hunting," Cody said. "There are no coincidences."
"No, that's rule number two," Robin said. "Rule number one is, 'Kill it before it eats you.
J.S. Hope
#97. Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
#98. Okay, listen to me," the old man said, his voice muffled behind his own swath of fabric. "We need to set some things straight before we get up there. We can't let our emotions rule everything. No matter what we see, our number one priority has to be saving as many people as possible.
James Dashner
#99. Look, I know you're a guy - " "Damn straight." "And there's some man rule that you've got to be all macho - " "Rule number three, actually." Both of her eyebrows shot up. "Would you just let me finish before I make you cry and break rule number three.
Cindi Madsen
#100. If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
Eric Temple Bell
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