If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant. " They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality. . . are felt.
I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.
I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.
New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.
The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
I'm a rule follower. But there is also a part of me, clearly, that doesn't follow them.
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.
That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.