#rule

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#back #build #energy #good #life

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#customer #every #golden #golden rule #man

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. ↗

— James Marsters

#always #back #because #chopin #cobain

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#expect #fiction #follow #genre #readers

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. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#global #important #important thing #law #most

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#complete #equipment #four #mathematician #may

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves. ↗

— Theresa May

#being #feel #imposing #meet #people

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. ↗

— Theresa May

#allowed #becoming #been #being #britain

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#add #apostle #argument #contradiction #contrary