Rule Quotes

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.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

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.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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.

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.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.