Rule Quotes

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to 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.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.