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Quotes About Rule

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
~ Albert Einstein
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
~ Napoleon Hill
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
~ H. A. L. Fisher
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
~ Unknown
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.
~ Anthony Eden
The Law is the Law!
~ David Pratt
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
~ Louis XIV
Power has no limits.
~ Tiberius
The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.
~ George C. Wolfe
The customer glared. Then she threw the bonnet at Sophie and stormed out of the shop. Sophie carefully crammed the bonnet into the wastebasket, panting rather. The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The rule was: Lose your temper, lose a customer. She had just proved that rule. It troubled her to realise how very enjoyable it had been.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Entery Ships The rule say that Pirate ships are faster then anything - except the Barbery vikings, when on the side of good can overtake even Pirates. Se also Boats and Galleys.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles
~ Dinesh D'Souza
but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.
~ Donna Tartt
It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.
~ Unknown
A man must make the Bible his rule of conduct. He must make its leading principles the compass by which he steers his course through life. By the letter or spirit of the Bible he must test every difficult point and question. "To the law and to the testimony! What saith the Scripture?" He ought to care nothing for what other people may think right. He ought not to set his watch by the clock of his neighbour, but by the sun-dial of the Word.
~ J.C. Ryle
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
~ Unknown
Today, as never before—the information media having become to enlightenment as the cereal aisle is to the supermarket—if you choose not to access the past, you are de facto free to rule it out of existence, at least so far as you might be concerned.
~ Unknown
Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
~ Unknown
For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.
~ Luke Timothy Johnson
For the habitually reserved Englishman . . . concealment of his emotions is the first and cardinal rule of gentlemanliness and social grace," one Ko?ciuszko Squadron pilot observed.
~ Unknown
She thought only men of property and talent should hold positions in government and once elected they should be allowed to rule with a minimum of popular interference. ..They cast off their old habits of frugality and tried to rise above social position as well - a double sin.
~ Unknown
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
~ Lysander Spooner
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
~ Unknown