Quotes of: Rule Keyword

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Hyman G. Rickover

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Bob Woodward

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes ...

Grover Norquist

The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.

Mary Schapiro

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Rob Portman

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about...

Andrew Eldritch

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Anthony Lewis

Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don'...

Ellen Malcolm

I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.

John Roberts

It is recorded in the monastic rules that a monk once performed an abortion on a girl; the Buddha judged his action seriously wrong, which incurred him the highest offense in the monastic rule. A monk committing this kind of wrongful deed must be exp...

Genomics and Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements

My new and improved Golden Rule: Dom unto others as you would have God Dom unto you.

Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook

Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

Foundation and Empire

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Let us choose one another as companions! Let us sit at each other's feet! Inwardly we have many harmonies - think not That we are only what we see.

The Forty Rules of Love

Sleeping with another girl does not always mean you are a lesbian, sometimes it just means the central heating needs fixing

Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress...feet on the floor and your knees together girl...You are trying to catch a husband, not flies !

Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

I suppose if you ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While