Top 646 Rule Quotes

EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), would restore the states’ proper role under the Clean Air Act and our system of federalism. Our plan would allow states to establish standards of performance that meet EPA emissions guidelines.
Andrew R. Wheeler
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don’t care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I’m excited about, I’m in.
Katherine Heigl
China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.
Shinzo Abe
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
David Josiah Brewer
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric
Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.
Yoshihide Suga
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don’t get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Jack Huston
Whatever China I’d been born into, I would probably still have become a painter – I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn’t been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
Ma Jian
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
Julia Ward Howe
I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
Dean Cain
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devi

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
Ezra Taft Benson
For those of us in the political business, generally, it’s been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don’t attack someone’s family.
Michael Nutter
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
Ben Rhodes
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won’t necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
Justin Cronin
I and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule.
Denzel Washington
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I’m totally honest. You change. Things alter. It’s the exception rather than the rule and I think it’s exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It’s hard work.
Robert Powell
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?
Adrienne Rich
A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you’re starving hungry and craving stuff. You’ll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn’t eat.
Joe Wicks
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett
A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.
Ray William Johnson
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
Frans de Waal
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
Annie Besant
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.
Richard Cobden
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.
Curtis LeMay
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
James Fenton
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
Camille Paglia
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That’s why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.
Nostradamus
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I’m interested I’ll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
Chris Cooper
Cats rule the world.
Jim Davis
There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA’s rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.
Abhijit Banerjee
A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.
Ellen Ullman
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all off

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That’s a pretty good rule.
Daniel Ellsberg
I’m fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I’ve wired myself for failure.
Ron Perlman
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan
Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me – close family and close friends – that unless I ask for it, I don’t really want advice thrown out.
Torrey DeVitto
Gotta keep your ear to the streets. That’s Rule No. 1.
R-Truth
Wildlife crime goes well beyond just a threat to endangered species but also has impacts on our society, economy and security. It undermines efforts to uphold the rule of law, acts as an agent for corruption, creates a barrier to development and fuels global instability.
David Lidington
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.
Eric Schmidt
In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
Rick Renzi
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.
Josiah Strong
Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.
Shinzo Abe
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard
The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns – including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar
Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
Stockwell Day
There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
Beth Ditto
I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice or rule of thumb.
Riya Sen
It’s a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you’re not allowed to see where something comes from, don’t put it in your mouth.
Jonathan Safran Foer
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
Michael Moore
The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn’t. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.
Neil Diamond