Rule Quotes

• I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Friends
  • Bored
  • Rule

• There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Law
  • Rule

• This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Broken
  • Rule
  • Wrecked

• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Woman
  • Her
  • Harlot

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Women
  • Rule
  • Obey

• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Problem
  • Rule
  • Solve

• Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.

  

  Claudine Andre
  • Nature
  • Dominated
  • Females

• My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Regret
  • Read

• I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Stories
  • Loved
  • Kid

• I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Song
  • Write
  • Rule

• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Society
  • Enemies
  • Magician

• The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Democracy
  • Opportunities
  • Soviet Union

• It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

  

  Queen Christina
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Obey

• Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Governments
  • Aristocracy

• Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Truth
  • Submit
  • Willingly

• As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Habit

• As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.

  

  Steve Krug
  • Work
  • Rule
  • Conventions

• The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Rule
  • Pronounce
  • Menu

• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice ...

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Think
  • Command

• I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • You
  • Know
  • End

• It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

  

  Major Taylor
  • True
  • Championship
  • Sportsmanship

• The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Interest
  • Forms

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