Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in… — Michael Lewis
Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you. — Steven Dietz
Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad. — Thomas Frank
When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children… — Grigori Rasputin
The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the… — Glenn Reynolds
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments… — Mariella Frostrup
It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense. — Richard Kalvar
In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. — William Ewart Napier
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a… — James Payn
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. — A. A. Gill
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --… — Odell Shepard
It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face—because it was really… — Keisha Castle-Hughes
One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the… — Jill Johnson
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus. — A. M. Rosenthal
The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the… — Isadore Sharp
Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes. — Genghis Khan
I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant -… — Carlos Mesa
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state. — Samuel Foote
I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the… — Fay Godwin
Bettman is an asshole. A frikkin asshole. I think he's ruined the game of hockey. He's supposed to be impartial. He's supposed to speak for… — Bob Probert
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. — Anthea Turner
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at… — Jane Bryant Quinn
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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