Top 646 Rule Quotes

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
George C. Williams
I want it to resonate: there’s no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.
Emily Atack
There’s no rules. Show me the rule book.
Liam Gallagher
You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.
Jane Roberts
As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.
Julie Andrews
Rule one: Write about settings you’re familiar with.
Jeffery Deaver
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
Diogenes
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Thomas Szasz
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael Pollan
There’s no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
Brian Greene
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, ‘morality.’ Morality is the ‘idea’ of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an ‘intellectual’ man, a so-called independent, a ‘freethinker.’
Max Stirner
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
Algernon Sidney
But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.
Errol Morris
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, eve

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer – you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
Donatella Versace
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
Bulent Ecevit
The family that brunches together stays together. My cousins and I swear by this rule, and Sunday brunch with them is like a detox session.
Ananya Panday
If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.
Sharan Burrow
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
Rhys Ifans
Remember the first rule of gunfighting… ‘have a gun.’
Jeff Cooper
I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that’s the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
Amber Riley
Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn’t Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn’t any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
Ja Rule
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
John J. Sirica
A rule to live by: I won’t use anything I can’t explain in five minutes.
Phil Crosby
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
Nigel Cole
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state’s chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.
Josh Hawley
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A’s in all my classes.
Sara Paxton
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.
Francis Parkman
We are a country based on the rule of law.
Kirstjen Nielsen
Here’s a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
John Podhoretz
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis
Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
Deeyah Khan
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism – otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group – otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.
Adam Curtis
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
Bill Dixon
As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who’ve dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
Dave Reichert
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
Elton Gallegly
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett
That’s the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.
Steve King
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.
Lenny Kravitz
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter

There’s an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
Maryanne Wolf
I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I’m not neurotic about food. My rule is, don’t let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
Andie MacDowell
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
Ben Hecht
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Lawrence Lessig
A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.
Ron Jaworski
We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.
Kourtney Kardashian
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Tom Sizemore
One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie – was that the rule is that animated movies don’t work unless they’re Disney movies for kids. Unless they’re family movies.
Mike Judge
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Gore Vidal
The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They are the very cornerstone of our freedoms.
David Lidington
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Gerry Adams
I had a rule – I didn’t have a lot of rules – and one of them was we’re going to operate from a mutual respect. I won’t embarrass you, and I don’t expect you to be embarrass me.
Mike Holmgren
It’s like there’s some unwritten rule that if you’re mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don’t really get that annoyed about it.
Karl Pilkington
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
Naomi Klein
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.
Dee Dee Myers
Money is the best rule of commerce.
William Petty