All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner
AngerLongInevitableDegreeRule
The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region to the next. Still, specialists do emerge.
Keith Gessen
GovernmentMilitaryNextRulePost
When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
Phyllis Schlafly
ChildSexismRuleCustodyHowever
As a rule, governments monitor people.
Ivan Krastev
PeopleRuleMonitorGovernments
It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.
Susan B. Anthony
WorkPoorMoreRuleThanWays
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
Cassandra Clare
NobodyNeverLightningAnythingRule
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
Sean MacBride
LawNeverUsedRuleBetweenWeapons
There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.
Daron Malakian
YouRuleBeingRecordsWhoContinue
I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat.
Scott Borchetta
YouGoBeatRuleGoingGet
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Ben Hecht
ArtWorldYouEliteRuleMasses
As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.
Rick Perlstein
BetterYearFairnessSecurityRule
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett
LoseForgetFirstRuleSecond
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis
SmallDownNiceSpecialTurnRule
There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
Joe Kennedy III
PoliticsVoteOldRulePercent
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust
MindBodyServeRuleEmploy
Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.
Murray Rothbard
TraditionPowerfulMoreThroughRule
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
GovernmentEasyDifficultRule
Whenever I see that a teammate is in a better position, I will pass the ball.
Ousmane Dembele
LoseSometimesOutTemperRule
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain
SmokeSleepingNeverRuleMake
I've met many journalists who impress me with their ability to play it straight. I think they're the exception to the rule.
Andrew Breitbart
MeThinkPlayImpressAbilityRule
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas
LawRule Of LawBuildWithoutRule
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
Lysander Spooner
NatureLawPermanentThingsRule
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
WomenMenAmericaLandWhereRule
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
Kate Greenaway
TimeHateLongLong TimeDoneRule
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