Rule Quotes
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
Seneca the Younger
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I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.
Ethan Hawke
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As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Nothing is more stultifying than running a meeting by Robert’s Rules of Order and to impose the political process of majority rule on small working groups where total commitment is needed.
Edgar Schein
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We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
Bill Gates
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I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.
Topher Grace
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.
Homer
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We were, in short, on the side of the violation, but only because it reaffirmed the value of the rule.
Elena Ferrante
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
Jane Austen
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That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
Haruki Murakami
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If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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My rule is: If I can eat it, I can put it on my skin.
Nikki Reed
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
John Milton
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It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
Heath Ledger
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You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.
Eva Longoria
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
Moliere
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The reason why people think of programming as being hard is because you're writing down a general rule which is going to be used for lots of instances that a particular instance must process correctly.
Gerald Jay Sussman
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Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Moliere