The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

- Alexandra Paul

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

- Antoine Rivarol

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

- Anna Julia Cooper

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

- Algernon Sidney

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

- Arne Duncan

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

- Arlen Specter

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

- Ariel Sharon

I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.

- Annette Bening

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

- Anne Hutchinson

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

- Anne Hutchinson

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

- Adam McKay

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

- Agnes Repplier

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

- Abbie Hoffman

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

- Aneurin Bevan

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

- Andy Rooney

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

- Andy Rooney

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

- Andres Iniesta

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

- Andrea Bocelli

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

- Alexander Graham Bell