Rule Quotes

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.