Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
~By Jon Voight ~
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~By Elihu Root ~
If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
~By Jim Gilmore ~
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.
~By Benny Green ~
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 ~
One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
~By Lou Reed ~
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
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 ~
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
~By Michael Behe ~
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
~By Claude Debussy ~
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
~By Caroline Corr ~
You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
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 ~
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
~By Terence ~
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'
~By Howard K. Smith ~
There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.
~By Jamie Kennedy ~
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
~By Josef Albers ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
~By Dan Rather ~
What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them.
~By Michael K. Powell ~
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
~By Albert Camus ~
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
~By Isabel Allende ~
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
~By Edmund White ~
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~By Naomi Watts ~
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
~By John Malkovich ~
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
~By Ross Perot ~
Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
~By Douglas Bader ~
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
~By Anthony de Mello ~
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 ~
I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
~By Tacitus ~
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
Imagination rules the world.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
~By Paul Eldridge ~
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.
~By Andrew Eldritch ~
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
~By Gary Gygax ~
But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.
~By Richard Perle ~
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 ~
I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.
~By Corey Feldman ~
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
Restrict bankruptcy rules.
~By Jerry Weller ~
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 ~
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
~By Harold Ramis ~
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
~By Alan Rickman ~
I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
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 ~
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
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 ~
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 ~
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
~By Phil Ochs ~
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 ~
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
~By Erykah Badu ~
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
~By Kenneth More ~
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
~By Angela Carter ~
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
~By Lawrence Taylor ~
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 ~
Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
~By George Orwell ~
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
~By Ken Venturi ~
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.
~By Stephen Sommers ~
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 ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
~By Al Sharpton ~
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 ~
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~By John Milton ~
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
~By Mary Douglas ~
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 ~
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
~By Jean Racine ~
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 ~
When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.
~By Lee Hazlewood ~
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
~By Chad Hugo ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
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 ~
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
~By Chris Matthews ~
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 ~
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