Rule Quotes

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

~ John Lubbock

If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined — are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred.

~ Suzy Kassem

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

What you focus upon will always tend to rule what is experienced.

~ Steven Redhead

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

~ T.f. Hodge

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

~ Émile Durkheim

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

~ Amit Kalantri

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Number rules the universe.

~ Pythagoras

I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible universes.

~ Stephen Wolfram

Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.

~ Toba Beta

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

~ Daniel Webster

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them—who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

~ Douglas Adams

In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.

~ Verghese Kurien

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

~ Thomas Sowell

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

~ Tahir Shah

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.~Louis D. Brandeis

~ Louis D. Brandeis

It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

~ Robin Hobb

There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.

~ Debasish Mridha

The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations, the hills and trenches, the laws and punishments placed upon the backs of those governed. A great leader is motivated not by power but by compassion. Therefore he can do nothing but make himself a servant to those whom he rules. Such a leader is unequivocally respected, and loved for loving.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Westley stared at him carefully. “Victor…I understand how you must feel but the rules Dracula upheld—”“Were the same very rules that allowed the Dark World to fall,” he finished coldly.

~ S.c. Parris

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?

~ James Madison

Rule 3: ‘Negative’ thoughts are normal. Don’t fight them, defuse them.

~ Russ Harris

Even though God rules in the affairs of men, yet the earth is not God’s jurisdiction.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

~ George Pólya

I cannot escape it, what I’ve done, no matter how far Ifollow the tunnel. I am alone with my sin. This is why they rule. The Peerless Scarredknow that dark deeds are carried through life. They cannot be outrun. They must beworn if one is to rule. This is their �rst lesson.

~ Pierce Brown

And He knew him, imagine, To be known, spoken of, By the creator of everything That rule from above.

~ Brian M. Boyce

The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.

~ Steven Magee

You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

~ Christina Engela

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

~ Jean-Philippe Toussaint

On the first floor, the first rule of a rumor was humor.

~ Pawan Mishra

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's just one rule, just one basic law that everyone lives under : take control or be controlled.

~ Jessica Khoury

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

~ Herman Wouk

The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of majestyDies not alone, but like a gulf doth drawWhat's near it with it; or it is a massy wheelFixed on the summit of the highest mount,To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser thingsAre mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,Each small annexment, petty consequence,Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never aloneDid the king sigh, but with a general groan.

~ William Shakespeare

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

The wisdom to be on the throne of one’s life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What I know and I have learn is my books I can't tell you, but search out there and you will find. As a second think as you was here, you will be here and you are going to be here!

~ Deyth Banger

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.

~ Markus Zusak