Rule Quotes

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

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.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

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.

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.