Rule Quotes

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.

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.

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

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.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.