Rules Quotes

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I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments. — William Lilly
We're not so free that we don't have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of… — Martha Stewart
It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I… — Edmund Kemper
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think… — Guy Kawasaki
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend… — Akio Morita
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms… — Taiichi Ohno
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and… — Michael Korda
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the… — John Stuart Mill
The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be… — James Fitzjames Stephen
When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules,… — Sun Tzu
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love. — Isaac Watts
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens. — Vi Hart
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and… — Paul Schrader
That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters. — Vincent de Paul
What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That… — Vincent de Paul
[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let… — Vincent de Paul
IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law… — Calvin Trillin
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained… — Louise Bourgeois

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