Quotes of: Rule Keyword

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you'r...

Jeffrey Kluger

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

John Bright

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Joss Whedon

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Annabelle Selldorf

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

Max Bill

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions...

Steven Levy

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?

Aurum

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The American Soul: TK

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

House Rules

On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

House Rules

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

House Rules

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Her Own Rules

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

Hank Butterfield: The Story of a Tennis Star

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

I gaped at what I saw next. She yanked his arm off and ate it. Gross! I knew she was hungry, but that was just...well, against the school rules for one thing.

Initiation

My emotions still held a stubborn hope that humans could be loyal, that they could hold out against the promise of an easy life. But I knew better.

The Immortal Rules

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit