The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.
~By David Boies ~
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
~By Joel Coen ~
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
~By Janet Suzman ~
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
~By Shelby Foote ~
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~By John Milton ~
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
~By Timothy West ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.
~By Kit Bond ~
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
~By Ellen Terry ~
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
~By Dan Rather ~
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~By Len Wein ~
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
~By Joan Jett ~
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
~By Angela Carter ~
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
~By Jean Kerr ~
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
~By Philip Schaff ~
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
~By Jeffrey Eugenides ~
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
~By Edward Weston ~
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
~By Virgil ~
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
~By Major Taylor ~
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
~By Peter Frederick Strawson ~
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
~By Jane Kaczmarek ~
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
~By Catharine MacKinnon ~
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
~By Anna Lindh ~
I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
~By Carson Kressley ~
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
~By Branch Rickey ~
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
~By F. Lee Bailey ~
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
~By Bill Toomey ~
I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
~By Jeff Beck ~
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
~By Quintilian ~
The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
~By Andre Breton ~
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.
~By David Bromstad ~
It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
~By Robert Iger ~
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
~By Guy Clark ~
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
~By Robert Evans ~
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
~By Michael Korda ~
I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
~By Kim Weston ~
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
~By William Lilly ~
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
~By William Temple ~
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
~By Bill Veeck ~
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~By William Hazlitt ~
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
~By Freddie Mercury ~
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
~By Lou Reed ~
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
~By Peter Singer ~
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
~By Xun Zi ~
The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
~By Bill Shankly ~
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
~By Ken Venturi ~
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~By King Edward VIII ~
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
~By Wayne Allard ~
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
~By Samuel Alito ~
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.
~By Martin Sheen ~
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
~By Ty Cobb ~
Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
~By Karl Rove ~
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
~By Richard Donner ~
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
~By Stephen Hawking ~
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.
~By Diane Johnson ~
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
~By John Henry Newman ~
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