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 ~
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 ~
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
~By Jane Kaczmarek ~
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
~By Christopher Wren ~
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
~By Carl Jung ~
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
~By Edward Weston ~
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
~By Bill Cosby ~
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
~By Bill Shankly ~
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
~By Steve Buyer ~
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
~By Isambard K. Brunel ~
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
~By Gary Gygax ~
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
~By Terence ~
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
I like rules that are broken.
~By Shelby Lynne ~
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
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 like breaking the rules.
~By Lexa Doig ~
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
~By Ross Perot ~
Existence precedes and rules essence.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
~By Xun Zi ~
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
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 ~
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
~By Paul Nitze ~
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
~By Joe Garagiola ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
~By Albert Einstein ~
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~By Muqtada al Sadr ~
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
~By Amanda Pays ~
There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.
~By Levon Helm ~
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
~By Harold Ramis ~
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
~By Mason Cooley ~
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.
~By Jim Evans ~
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 ~
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
~By Eugene Levy ~
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 ~
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
~By Blair Underwood ~
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
~By Truman Capote ~
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
~By Lars von Trier ~
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 ~
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
~By Michael Behe ~
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
~By Fred Thompson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
I had always broken the rules.
~By Lauren Hutton ~
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~By John Milton ~
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
~By Quintilian ~
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
~By Alan Rickman ~
There are no rules when it comes to love.
~By Taylor Swift ~
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
~By Whitey Herzog ~
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
~By Bill Walsh ~
Restrict bankruptcy rules.
~By Jerry Weller ~
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
~By George Ade ~
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.
~By Herbert Simon ~
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 ~
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
~By William Lilly ~
I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?
~By Mike Johanns ~
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 ~
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
~By Maria Callas ~
Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
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 ~
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
~By Bill Toomey ~
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 ~
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
~By Richard Branson ~
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 ~
But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
~By Jenifer Lewis ~
I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
~By Tiger Woods ~
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
~By David Brin ~
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
~By Michael Korda ~
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
~By Ian Hislop ~
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