Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build… — Vaclav Havel
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception. — Edith Widder
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the… — William Hazlitt
I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but… — Cesar Chavez
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit… — Sonia Sotomayor
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it. — Benjamin Disraeli
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a… — Al McGuire
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you… — Lewis B. Smedes
Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without… — Charles Kingsley
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Young people are thoughtless as a rule. — Homer
Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule breaker. — Justin Bieber
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. — Robert Breault
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. — Henri Poincare
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every… — Henry David Thoreau

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