Top 646 Rule Quotes

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Don Drysdale
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
Gautam Adani
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Karen Armstrong
My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.
Nicki Minaj
For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don’t think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.
Davy Crockett
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If confirmed by the Senate to serve on the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case and always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law.
Brett Kavanaugh
If the choice is between universal health care or fixing our broken immigration system or upholding a 60-vote filibuster rule that is nowhere in the Constitution, I’m going to choose actually making progress for the American people.
Julian Castro
Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and ec

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.
Kofi Annan
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
James Cash Penney
Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Andy Rooney
It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?
Jurgen Klopp
When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there’s a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
Mario Batali
Money don’t rule me, record companies don’t rule me.
Link Wray
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson
I wouldn’t totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I’m not going to go out of my way.
Joe Rogan
We have this rule in our marriage, there’s no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.
Nadiya Hussain
I live by Edith Wharton’s rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
Melissa Bank
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
Atifete Jahjaga
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Charles Osgood
I don’t enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
Andrew Eldritch
We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.
Ron Jaworski
I live by this rule – breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
Suniel Shetty
We set up one rule in our house, which is, ‘Guests of guests cannot bring guests.’ That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, ‘Okay, you know what? That’s a little too much.’
Elizabeth Gilbert
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
Giacomo Casanova
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson
Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter.
Antonio Guterres
Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don’t apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.
Julian Baggini
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
Marion Ross
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man’s house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
Thurgood Marshall
The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.
Jon Postel
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
Erle Stanley Gardner
I mean, you have to be able – you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can’t do it by yourself.
James Cameron
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’
Tony Oller
I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I t

I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it – in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
Aidan Gillen
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar
I couldn’t date someone who didn’t like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn’t like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.
Penn Badgley
There’s a lot of hypocrisy and condescension in Israel’s institutionalized support for Mubarak’s tyrannical rule, in its backing of a corrupt leader who established a brutal secret police state to suppress his citizens and keep their mouths shut.
Sayed Kashua
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees – not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Dick Durbin
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
Hugh Mackay
I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.
David Cage
No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.
Raul Grijalva
I never rule anything out. I’m an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
Martine McCutcheon
In the Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the FCC strengthened its transparency rule so that Internet service providers must make public more information about their network management practices. They are required to make this information available either on their own website or on the FCC’s website.
Ajit Pai
All systems in Pakistan appear to be in a haste to achieve something, which can have both positive and negative implications. Let us take a pause and examine the two fundamental questions: One, are we promoting the rule of law and the Constitution? Two, are we strengthening or weakening the institutions?
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Douglas Horton
I try to read everything that’s sent me – play scripts, movie scripts – but I’ve had to make a rule. If the author hasn’t grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
Hume Cronyn
Women rule our lives, don’t they?
Juan Manuel Fangio
The golden rule for playing the bass is that’s it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum – which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.
Suzi Quatro
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe Judge Kavanaugh is a well-qualified conservative jurist, and I commend President Trump for his commitment to naming Supreme Court justices who are committed to the rule of law.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
Alexander Lukashenko
To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.
Harvey Weinstein
I believe there’s one rule in Hollywood, and that’s that there are no rules.
Doug Hutchison
My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
Maureen Johnson
A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don’t need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.
Bill Kristol