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Fairness Morals

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Leading Calling

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

- Abraham Lincoln

Muslim Perfectly

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

- Abu Bakar Bashir

Fact Then

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

- Adam McKay

Still Other

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

- Adam Schiff

World Console

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

- Agnes Repplier

Internet Social

Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.

- Aileen Lee

Strong Enemy

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

- Akhmad Kadyrov

Hope Tremendous

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.

- Alain Juppe

Here Them

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

- Alan Alda

Reveal Go

I was told one time never to go longer than an hour in an interview because you reveal yourself too much, but I never follow that rule.

- Alden Ehrenreich

Exception Brought

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

- Alice Munro

I Think Own

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

- Amber Riley

Enjoy Shows

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

- Andrew Eldritch

Want Kind

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

- Andrew Shue

Why Protection

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

- Andrew Vachss

Chance Probability

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

- Andy Rooney

Give Will

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.

- Anna Julia Cooper

Younger Clear

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

- Anne Hutchinson

Morning Room

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

- Anne Tyler

Experience Worlds

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

- Annie Besant

Management Try

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

- Anthea Turner

Fame Exception

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

- Antoine Rivarol

Monarchy Individual

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Numbers Disengagement

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

- Ariel Sharon

Forward Observational

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

- Arthur Eddington

Here Before

If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.'

- Arthur Quiller-Couch

Your Wear

Your shoes have to match your belt. That's rule number one for guys. You can't put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don't do it! Also, I don't like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt.

- Ashton Kutcher

Exception Everybody

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

- Charles Osgood

Feel Wear

The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.

- Chiara Ferragni

Desperate Bring

The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don't take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for 'yes' or afraid of 'no,' so they don't ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I've heard many people say, 'Well, that's a non-starter, so we won't even bring it up.'

- Christopher Voss

Other Repeatedly

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

- Christopher Voss

Part Our

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

- Clare Short

Only No Rules

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

- Dana Snyder

Work Book

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

- Danica Patrick

Strong Private

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

- Dave Brat

Role Martina

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

- David Furnish

More Ten Commandments

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

- David Josiah Brewer

Enjoy Being

I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.

- Davinia Taylor

Continuity Does

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

- Dean Rusk

Like Teams

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

- Dean Smith

My Life Private

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

- Dee Dee Myers

Next Conduct

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Doubt About

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

- John Lubbock

American Courts

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. And when we uphold the rule of law it provides a powerful alternative to the twisted worldview offered by al-Qa'ida.

- John O. Brennan

Thumb Ideological

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

Independence

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

Constitution Reagan

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

- John Roberts

United Constitutional

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

- Johnny Isakson

Rules Save

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.

- Jonathan Turley

Politics New

The new rule in American politics is that no one can make it to the White House without the Hispanic vote.

- Jorge Ramos

Almost Simpler

It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.

- Joseph Brodsky

Part Nor

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

- Joseph P. Bradley

Against Officer

As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.

- Josh Hawley

Country Impunity

Indonesia can hold regular elections, but if the laws do not apply to the most powerful elements in society, then there is no rule of law and no genuine democracy. The country will never become a true democracy until it takes serious steps to end impunity.

- Joshua Oppenheimer

Cities Largest

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

- Josiah Strong

Emotion Prefer

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

- Juan Gris

Lives Our

Women rule our lives, don't they?

- Juan Manuel Fangio

Future Out

I don't rule out anything in my future.

- Judd Gregg

Law Agencies

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

- Julian Assange

Flag Wear

There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.

- Beth Ditto

Conscience Person

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- Harper Lee

Best Body

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Other Depends

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Buy Your

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

- Bill Bryson

Down Percent

I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.

- Hasan Minhaj

American Mandate

Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.

- Bill Kristol

Doing Thumb

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

- Heath Ledger

Unsaid Your

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

- Bob Dylan

Men Circumstances

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

- Herodotus

Government Many

It is not good to have a rule of many.

- Homer

Dallas Another

Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

- Bruce Jay Friedman

Love Some

As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.

- Bryan Batt

Insults Many

I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

- Bryan Burrough

Governments Monitor

As a rule, governments monitor people.

- Ivan Krastev

Extinction Exception

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

- Carl Sagan

Nation Will

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

- Carlos Mesa

Benefits Type

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

- James Bovard

Put Political Parties

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

- James Callaghan

Precept Torch

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

- James Cash Penney

Own Parade

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

- James F. Cooper

United Why

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

- Cecil Rhodes

Identifying Out

People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

- James Inhofe

Reason Everybody

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

- Chad Kroeger

True Third

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

- James L. Brooks

Exception Every

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

- James Thurber

Change Must

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

Local Had

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

- Jamie Oliver

Other Get

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

- Jane Roberts

One Day Next

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next.

- Diane Ackerman

Faith About

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

- Janet Yellen

Art Slave

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

- Diogenes

Love World

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

- Don King

Scientific Signals

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

- Jean-Marie Lehn

Gun Remember

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'

- Jeff Cooper

Hollywood No Rules

I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

- Doug Hutchison

Big Desires

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

- Douglas Horton

Settings About

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

- Jeffery Deaver

Choose Hollywood

'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There's always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it's much less exhausting!

- Jenji Kohan

About Roman

In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.

- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

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