Rules Quotes

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea...

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based ...

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to...

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearanc...

Wither thou goest, I will go; thy people shall by my people; where thou diest, will I die, and there...

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and capric...

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that a...

- The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club ...

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on ...

Works of art make rules rules do not make works of art.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infal...

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of...

No one rules if no one obeys

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's ...

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm...

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrativ...

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those pures...

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or w...

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that ac...

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled t...

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, ...

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth conside...

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as ...

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignor...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material t...

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but kn...

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists...

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But li...

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obe...

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whethe...

It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to esc...

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is complete...

Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its ru...

There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in t...

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the...

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot ...

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from...

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, ...

Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ....

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquet...

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th...

I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goo...

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward...

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaiti...

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to ...

...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these ...

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether...

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...

Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impuni...

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permit...

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up th...

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly p...

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a...

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of...

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy th...

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not ...

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are...