Top 646 Rule Quotes

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.
Gail Collins
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even ‘The New York Times’ let it slip into its pages that, ‘Texas is the future.’
Rick Perry
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett
No, I think that we’ve got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
Roy Moore
I’ve learned to never rule anything in or out.
Susan Collins
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.
Francis Ford Coppola
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.
Lysander Spooner
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Charles Buxton
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try a

The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t.
Anthea Turner
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
Khaleda Zia
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That’s the general rule.
Nick Johnson
Throughout my political career, I’ve believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same – the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.
Linda Lingle
Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.
Dean Rusk
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James Fenimore Cooper
The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury’s special qualities.
Tom Allen
Nationalism has nothing to do with the rule of law, justice, or opportunity.
Anne Applebaum
Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don’t rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.
Maurizio Cattelan
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
James Bovard
That’s the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That’s it. Every MC knows that. If I’m on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That’s just how it is in hip-hop.
Ja Rule
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
Tony Snow
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
Paul Johnson
I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
Juan Gris
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.
Richard Steele
I don’t really set out to please anybody, and I don’t think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
Ian Anderson
There’s probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Jim Leach
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter
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.
Frances Wright
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
Sabine Baring-Gould
I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn’t rule my life.
Aisha Tyler
We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
Melina Mercouri
I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.
John Roberts
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
Lincoln Steffens