Bending Rules Quotes

#1. In America, being able to get things done, especially if it's by bending rules, making exceptions, or calling in a favor, is the way to show power. In France, being able to say non (especially to a bureaucratically legitimate request) is the way to show power. And piss me off.

Vivian Swift

#2. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

Jeannette Walls

#3. When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

Edward Snowden

#4. There's a new kind of woman out there ... She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.

Anna Wintour

#5. Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

Stephen Fry

#6. The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Marya Mannes

#7. My lonely eyes looked over the graves. I wept.

Nancy B. Brewer

#8. I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I'd ever gone through. It'd be contradictory if I said I wasn't pro-choice. I wasn't ready. I didn't have anything to offer a child.

Nicki Minaj

#9. In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

David Crystal