Rule Quotes
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I thought Chris had it. The rule is a tie goes to the offense.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.
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People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?
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There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.
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What he Bernie Sanders does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.
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The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
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American ideas about freedom certainly resonate abroad. Eastern Europeans embraced them after the collapse of Communist rule. Indeed, the years since 1989 have witnessed an unprecedented internationalization of current American concepts of freedom.
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When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.
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Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
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Without a doubt, this tire rule will increase car counts, especially at the USA Nationals, and provide the fans with very close, intense racing.
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I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.
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Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.
