Rule Quotes

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.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

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.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.