Rule Quotes - page 97

With Eisenhower, we're dealing with something after the fact, a kind of Diocletian grace of God to rule over us, for a time, while we figure out who we are, as rulers. (George W. S. Trow)
When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: 'Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. View quote
James Thomson (poet)
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad. View quote
James Thomson (poet)
The evidence shows a growing albeit reluctant acceptance of the rule of law. But time, patience and a genuine commitment not just of the country's leaders towards creating an environment that will allow democracy, human rights and the rule of law to flourish, will be required. View quote
Graeme Leung
Democracy, the rule of law and human rights march hand in hand. These concepts are not well understood by a good portion of the population. View quote
Graeme Leung
We will rule by ourselves. In two years or in six years. Patiently, substantially, at ease. View quote
Roman Giertych
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. View quote
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. View quote
Charles Dickens
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own. View quote
Charles Dickens
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground. View quote
Charles Dickens
It seems that the majority of men are suggestible, half-awake children, willing to surrender their will to anyone who speaks with a voice that is threatening or sweet enough to sway them. Indeed, he who has a conviction strong enough to withstand the opposition of the crowd is the exception rather than the rule, an exception often admired centuries later, mostly laughed at by his contemporaries. (Erich Fromm)
If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent, - a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue. View quote
Henry Codman Potter
Brethren, we can rule our tempers, and we ought. Open the gospel, that most profound philosophy of the human soul, and yet most simple and practical directory of human duty; study it, fill your whole nature with its inspiration; set Christ before you; look upon His calm forehead and unstormed breast; think how He endured all contradiction of sinners, and endured them to the cross; and on the cross learn of Him then, for He was meek and lowly of heart. View quote
Henry Giles
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
At this late date in the post-Christian Era, it might be questioned whether the Bible should even be brought into an ethical discussion. I argue that it should. Many people who do not explicitly call on the Bible for backing are nevertheless influenced by what they believe the Bible says. (Everyone knows about the Good Samaritan, even though they may not be able to remember what Samaritans in general were.) It is considered good form to speak politely of Scripture: revere it, but don't bother reading it seems to be the rule. Above all, don't read it thoughtfully. View quote
Garrett Hardin
These [anti-government] websites are expensive to maintain. We have been told that it costs about RM60,000 to set up the equipment, and around RM30,000 to maintain ... I don't rule out the possibility that the websites are being funded by foreign elements, perhaps using students to do the work. (Ibrahim Ali)
Democrats demonstrate daily that they're not for the rule of law, but for the law of rule, mob rule. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Another dynamic is at play in the region besides the Sunni-Shia divide. It is that between the forces of centralization and the forces of decentralization. As a rule, the U. S. sides with the former; the Arab people with whom we meddle generally side with the latter. Given the tribal, familial focus of their societies; Arabs are unlikely to abandon their particularism in favor of American statism. View quote
Ilana Mercer
A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa. View quote
Stephen Potter
Where no gods are, spectres rule. View quote
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