#rule

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assault #capitalism #children #comfortable #conviction

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#guys #i #i think #make #own

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself. ↗

— Nellie Melba

#first #life #opera #rule #see

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#blow #british #character #deadly #greatest

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#enterprise #entire #irrelevant #present #ready

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

#bolivia #i #i do #nation #number

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with. ↗

— Christina Milian

#heard #i #jam #looking #months

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

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

#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#observed #ought #power #predominant #republic