Quotes About Rule

Qui t'en empêche, ô Toi qui règnes sur ma vie, Toi qui peux presque tout, Toi qui, d'un plissement volontaire de tes sourcils, rapproches dans le ciel les nuages ?

I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty. Never mind whether our gods are true or not; they are beautiful, their rule is pleasant for us, and we live without care.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

And that is how Amelia Bedelia's Rule #2 was born: Include the word "healthy" in your request or comment, and grown-ups will automatically agree.

In a political discussion about the empire, Harold the diplomat argued for the benefits of colonial rule: 'our English genius is for government.' Raymond opposed him: 'The governed don't seem to enjoy it.

My father disapproved. Secretary was a demeaning occupation, he said. It promised independence but was another knot in the millenary subjection of women to the rule of men.

I will have no alien interfere with my rule, and I will allow no traitor to shelter behind the cross of Christ.

We worked and governed with incredible elan. We really ruled. For the bureaucrats of the Ministry the contrast to the Weimar Republic was stark. Party chatter in the Reichstag was no longer heard. The language of the bureaucracy was rid of the paralyzing formula: technically right but politically impossible.

The Folk adore Cardan, and they're terrified of my sister, two excellent things. I hope they rule Elfhame for a years and then pass it down to one of a dozen offspring. No need for me to be involved.

We get power by taking it.

El verdadero poder no se concede, y tampoco se puede arrebatar

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

She thought it was illegal to watch television when the sun was shining.

But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

By a customary "rule of four," it takes the votes of four justices to accept a case for argument and decision—to "grant cert.

The rule then provides examples of "the character of the reasons the Court considers.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I'm traveling, all bets are off, but I don't cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I'll have some meat. But I know, personally, that's the best I'm ever going to do in my life.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

The only possible exception to this rule applies to those of us in Generation X, where the outnumbering Boomers refused to be budged. (Yeah, thanks for that.)

What's so scary is that mob rule has displaced due process. The faceless masses are America's new arbiters of justice.