The rule of law is the guarantee of the stability and prosperity of a country.

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose. Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

Any tendency to design for design’s sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster

There’re rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you’re number two.

I don’t consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there’s a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I’ll do it.

There are no rules within this house of mine – I am no mother regular, forsooth! A cool mom I, ’tis so, Regina, yea?

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

The middle of ‘America’s Women’ is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren’t supposed to do.

Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

I am not a methodical singer. I don’t follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart – whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

There’s a thing that happens to Midwesterners – we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don’t know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn’t say. And that is not very East coast

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that

Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It’s a game of bat and ball.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I’m gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That’s my motto.

Win a no-win situation by rewriting the rules.

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

In America, if you don’t like the rules, you protest. And the worst thing they can do is make sure you never play professional football again.

We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rule

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

In vain, these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness, they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Don’t live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don’t always represent a real situation.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I’ve always had a sense of responsibility, whether I’ve been captain or not. But I must say that I’m both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that’s score goals and help my team win.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

You want to play the game, you’d better know the rules, love.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law

A strong spirit transcends rules.