Rule Quotes

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.