Rule Quotes

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.