Top 100 Rule Quotes
#2. The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
Plato
#3. The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.
Mehmet Oz
#4. 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
#6. There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
Steve Erickson
#7. There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.
Robert Jordan
#8. Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
Albert Camus
#9. Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same." A
Haruki Murakami
#10. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#12. If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women.
Luke Evans
#13. Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.
Aristotle.
#14. Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
Tibor R. Machan
#16. Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.
Jon Meacham
#17. The bottle, with its impotent message, was gone out to sea, and the problem that it had provoked was reduced to a simple sum in addition - one and one make two, by the rule of arithmetic; one by the rule of romance.
O. Henry
#18. Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.
Cassandra Clare
#19. Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
Bertrand Russell
#20. People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.
Johan Huizinga
#21. Not branded dresses, expensive perfumes, studded sandals, glamorous accessories, the true beauty of a woman is her smile, willpower, confidence, intelligence and her ability to survive and rule with pride in a man's world.
Happy Woman's Day !
Harshada Pathare
#22. Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.
Maurice Bigelow
#23. The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.
Brian Tracy
#24. The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
Walter Mosley
#25. The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
Alfred North Whitehead
#26. Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?
Candace Bushnell
#27. For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.
Leo Robin
#28. Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.
Chuck Grassley
#29. When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing.
John F. Street
#30. If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
John Lubbock
#31. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.
Vicki Abeles
#32. Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.
Mark Zupan
#33. {Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.
Kingsley Amis
#34. You don't have to teach fish how to swim; they are born knowing they will rule the waters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth.
Ryu Murakami
#36. My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.
Ishmael Beah
#37. Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#38. In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
Lani Guinier
#39. After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
Christian Slater
#40. Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.
Bob Varsha
#41. Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
Mark Buchanan
#42. Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
#43. Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
Amira Hass
#44. Servitude of any sort is distasteful to all men, but especially objectionable is subjection to others in the case of those who ought to rule.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#45. There is no rule in this universe,which could rule this mighty Creation of that almighty Creator and that's why exceptions are always there.
Kumar Rajgeet
#46. China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.
Hu Jintao
#47. But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?
Ken Mehlman
#48. India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. 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
#51. To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
Confucius
#52. I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
Ian Fleming
#53. Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.
Necro
#54. 10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.
Ramesh Selvarajoo
#55. Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
Adam McKay
#56. ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.
Billy Connolly
#57. The exception does not prove the rule.
Mark Suster
#58. As a general rule anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice [ ... ]
Benedict Jacka
#59. When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The 'transactions' will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.
Dada Bhagwan
#60. By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
Alan Watts
#61. What purpose will your death serve?"
"It will serve to prove that you do not control this kingdom. It will serve to prove that not everyone will bow down to you. You think to rule us with fear, but you cannot. I will never renounce my beliefs, or my husband.
Cynthia Hand
#62. When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.
John O. Brennan
#63. For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare
#64. You know what would really help? If men started looking at it like a bank. The more you deposit the more you can withdraw later. Make a woman come as a rule, she's going to be more receptive to regular sex and much more open-minded about what's on the table as far as experimenting. Common sense.
Chloe Cole
#65. Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule.
Matthew Henry
#66. Remember, people, study the rule sheet. Snuggle it at night, eat lunch with it, take it to the movies. It's the only way you're passing my class, Mr. Pinner calls over the bustle of students herding out the door.
Anna Banks
#67. New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.
Bill Maher
#68. Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private ... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
Aristotle.
#69. The rule of law constitutes a basic protection of individuals against tyrannical government. But in the second half of the twentieth century, law lost its focus as a constraint on government and became instead an instrument for widening the scope of government.
Francis Fukuyama
#70. I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.
Pete Sampras
#71. The wise person acts but does not take credit. Leads, but does not rule.
Lao-Tzu
#72. Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
Anne Hutchinson
#73. Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.
George W. Bush
#74. You create your own reality. There is no other rule.
Seth
#75. What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents ... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.
Zoe Leonard
#76. That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,)
By Nature did what was by Law requir'd;
They, who the written Rule and never known,
Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone:
To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead;
And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
John Dryden
#77. Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.
David Berlinski
#78. Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet she was speaking to the evidence. But to be offered the power to rule the world? She wasn't sure her career in exercise instruction had prepared her for this.
Christopher Moore
#79. A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
Lawrence Summers
#80. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.
Harvey Weinstein
#81. 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
#82. Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
Melina Marchetta
#83. He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".
J.G. Ballard
#84. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
Gautama Buddha
#85. Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.
Asma Barlas
#86. Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.
Dahlia Lithwick
#88. One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.
Kathleen Norris
#89. Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Seneca The Elder
#90. New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?
Bill Maher
#91. No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench - that God would guide them and give them wisdom.
Franklin Graham
#92. Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region ... No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
Ali Khamenei
#93. Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.
Stieg Larsson
#94. Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,
Agatha Christie
#95. The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.
Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
#96. As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.
Francois Fenelon
#97. Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
Louis Dudek
#98. Her head swung around as if it had become detached from her spine. "My God! Your brother is HOT!"
Calista shook her head and looped an arm around the woman's waist. "Yes, he is. I'll be sure to tell my family you thought so."
"It doesn't count when they're drunk. House rule," I complained.
Ashlan Thomas
#100. Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
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