Quotes About Rule

The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

When the entire administration of the state connives with the perpetrators of violence to thwart justice at every step, clearly there is no rule of law in that state.

All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Time is not my dictator," said the Queen Mother. "I dictate to time.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

The queen of night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

I admit I still recoil against a society that has so slipped in caring that ordinary human sharing and thoughtfulness appears to warrant ahumanitarian award and diligent effort seems too often the exception rather than the rule.

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

The don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. To inspire true love, one also had to be feared. Love alone was contemptible, it was nothing if it did not also include trust and obedience. What good was love to him if it did not acknowledge his rule?

Never trust a man who doesn't like animals. That's my rule.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Power, power, everybody like wants power