Rule Quotes

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

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 lines only into triplets.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

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

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.