Rule Quotes

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

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.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.