"By This Axe I Rule!" (1967)
Variant: By This Axe I Rule!
“When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.”
§ 219
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold… rules.”
Attributed
“I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules.”
New York Times, 20 September 1970.
“Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules.”
On her controversial personality and performance, quoted in Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond (2004) by Autumn Stephens, p. 142
“I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.”
Letter to Thomas Carlyle (28 September 1845).
“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno…”
From the song "Still Ill"
From songs
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c.
2013
In this story, humans have by the early 21st century explored the Solar System and sent not just one but two crewed ships to Alpha Centauri … despite which the characters moan endlessly about the dire state of the space program. “Eyes of Amber” would be another example of the Rusting Bridges [Rule]: No matter how much the space program you actually have has achieved, whether it’s first contact with aliens or trips to nearby stars, it can never have achieved as much as the space programs you can imagine would have achieved in its place, given that imaginary programs aren’t limited by issues of politics, funding, or engineering.
Review of “Eyes of Amber”, by Joan D. Vinge (as anthologized in New Women of Wonder, edited by Pamela Sargent http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/yet-more-sf-about-women-by-women, 2015
2010s
“I live in emotions, not in rules.”
Original: (it) Vivo di emozioni, non di regole.
Source: prevale.net
