Quotes of: Rule Keyword

Dr. Lilian Thurman: If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.

Donnie Darko

Ferris: Hey, Cameron. You realize if we played by the rules right now we'd be in gym?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Henry Hill: Killing's got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

Goodfellas

[after examining the murder of a man bludgeoned to death with a keyboard] Det. Hugo: Well... I guess we can rule out suicide.

Gattaca

Boss Tweed: Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.

Gangs of New York

Perry: Rule number 1... Harry: Yeah. Perry: This business. Real life, boring.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Gandalf: Authority is not given to you to deny the return of the king, *Steward*. Denethor: The rule of Gondor is mine! And no other's!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Frankie Dunn: What you learn tonight? Maggie Fitzgerald: Always protect myself. Frankie Dunn: What's the rule? Maggie Fitzgerald: Always protect myself.

Million Dollar Baby

Yeti: You wanna go to the village? Okay, rule number one out here: Always... no, Never go out in a blizzard.

Monsters, Inc.

Rhineheart: You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.

The Matrix

Elizabeth: You're pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Gavin Cavanagh: Are you doing something dirty? Are you doing something your parents don't know about? Are you breaking the law? Are you breaking the rules?

Pirate Radio

Jayden: Yep, I know the rules: no belts, no razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom. Grace: No cussing. Jayden: Shit, I forgot about that one.

Short Term 12

Lady Asaji Washizu: Admirable, my Lord. You, who would soon rule the world, allow a ghost to frighten you.

Throne of Blood

Sethi: The man best able to rule Egypt will follow me. I owe that to my fathers, not to my sons.

The Ten Commandments

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

Whitey Herzog

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Podhoretz

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

John J. Sirica

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.

Levi Woodbury