I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
Princess Isabelle: The king will be dead in a month and his son is a weakling. Who do you think will rule this kingdom?
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.
There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Never allow rude and toxic peoples to rule on your head, remember its your life and you're the owner of it.
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
