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Quotes About Rule

It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
~ Dallas Willard
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.
~ Gabriel Orozco
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.
~ Winston Churchill
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
~ John Stuart Mill
Do not ever give a Queen a home appliance as a gift. Period. The end.
~ Jill Conner Browne
Marston liked to say that Wonder Woman was meant to be "psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world," but neither he nor Gaines seem to have given much thought to hiring a woman to draw her.
~ Jill Lepore
When Benjamin Franklin began writing his autobiography, in 1771, he turned the story of his own escape—running away from his apprenticeship to his brother James—into a metaphor for the colonies' growing resentment of parliamentary rule.
~ Jill Lepore
One of my colleagues in Birmingham University, where I come from,' said Trevair, 'is a moral philosopher. He taught me that one of the ways to judge a course of action is to consider what company it puts one in. I doubt if that's very good philosophy, but I find it a good rule of thumb.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
There are exceptions to this rule—that is, if a group or individual also appears on the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Controls list of "specially designated nationals"—but this list is short.
~ Jillian York
God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world.
~ Jim Bishop
One of the oldest rules of trading is: If a market is hit with very bullish news and instead of going up, the market goes down, get out if you're long. An unexpected and opposite reaction means there is something seriously wrong with the position.
~ Jim Paul
This is true of the birth of democracy, too. Indeed, the novelty of democratic rule would not have been conceivable without the intense awareness of the common bond forged by shared genealogy as fostered by religion.
~ Joan Breton Connelly
To a nonstop world, the Rule of Benedict brings balance and simplicity. In the face of a complex world with the twenty-four-hour workdays and constant motion, the Rule asks for a life that deals with a little bit of everything in proper measure: work, prayer, solitude, relationships. The Rule, in other words, is an antidote to excess and to human dwarfism. A proverb says, "Wherever there is excess, something is lacking." The Rule of Benedict mandates a measured life.
~ Joan Chittister
She's weird, just like the rest of us," Poseidon interrupted. "Speak for yourself! Just because I rule the dead and my pet is a dog with three heads, that doesn't make me weird," Hades said. Then he thought about it. "Oh wait, maybe it does.
~ Joan Holub
I'm in charge here, don't forget it," he stated. I nodded, mesmerized.
~ Joanna Wylde
Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.
~ Joe Abercrombie
And just remember Comrades this one thing: the most important thing you have is power! Hang on to power at all costs! Without it, you are nothing!" He didn't mention the democracy demonstrations and the fact that the Soviets were backing away from us,' Herr Bohnsack says, 'but it was clear he must, at some level, have felt the end coming.
~ Anna Funder
If men could not control it or rule over it, a thing had no place in the world.
~ Anne Bishop
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
~ Anne Bishop
You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
~ Anne Carson
Blended Text You have captured: pinned upon my heart: the wall of my heart is your love with one glance: as one with one bead: as an exile of the kings of royalty of your eyes: my heart you have something of mine: a torn thing again the moon: now the rule: (who knows)
~ Anne Carson
There was an amount of politics involved in an evening like this. It was a kind of rule of thumb that the later the arrival, the more sympathetic to the Republican Cause, and these particular musicians came last of all.
~ Anne Enright
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
~ Annie Besant