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Quotes About Rule

Whereas Google envisages an era of machine dominance through artificial intelligence, you will rule your machines, and they will serve you as intelligent, willing slaves. You will be the "oracle" that programs your life and dictates to your tools.
~ George Gilder
We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order—a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.
~ George H. W. Bush
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
~ George Osner
The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.
~ George R.R. Martin
If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.
~ George W. Bush
There is no rule about anything in the stock market save perhaps one. That rule is that the key to market tops and bottoms or the key to market advances or declines will never work more than once. The lock, so to speak, is always changed. Therefore, a little horse sense is far more useful than a lot of theory.
~ Gerald M. Loeb
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
~ Gerald R. Ford
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
~ R. B. Sheridan
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
~ Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
~ Anonymous
An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
Possession is eleven points in the law.
~ Colley Cibber
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
~ William Shakespeare
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
~ Thomas a Kempis
And the patriarch Jacob declared in his last will and testament that the tribe of his son Judah would rule over them all
~ Israel Finkelstein
A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull.
~ J. Frank Dobie
There's no rule to that, Eve. It's just love.
~ J.D. Robb
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.
~ J.M. Coetzee
She wondered if there was a rule against shellans riding. Probably not... As long as she was sidesaddle, dressed in armor plating, and had a helmet made of reinforced, skid-resistant Kevlar, they'd probably let her go a few circles around the fountain in front of the house. Vroom-vroom. Fucking wheeeeeeee.
~ J.R. Ward
Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
~ Jack London
You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
~ Nancy Kress