Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel… — Charlie Watts
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody… — Michael Caine
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. — Gautama Buddha
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. — Seneca the Younger
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of… — Alexander Alekhine
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after… — Vincent of Lerins
This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which… — Pope Agatho
I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is… — Augusto Pinochet
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that… — Mary Oliver
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which… — John Calvin
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the… — N. T. Wright
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an… — Ansen Dibell
A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. — Judith Martin
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world… — Robert M. Pirsig
At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Nobody hopped into a wardrobe to find Narnia; they hopped in, thinking it was just a wardrobe. They didn't climb up the Faraway Tree, knowing… — Holly Smale
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate,… — Daniel H. Pink
Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the… — Pieter Zeeman
First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news... — Kanye West
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Chris Stringer
Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do… — Marci Shimoff
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will… — Gautama Buddha
There is no rule on how to write. — Ernest Hemingway
New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion. — Bill Maher

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