Rule Quotes

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

You get what you concentrate upon... there is no other main rule.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.