Top 100 Own Rules Quotes
#2. Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
Roger Ebert
#3. The gods have their own rules.
Ovid
#4. I like to play by my own rules.
Laila Ali
#5. If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#6. Maybe, she is right. Maybe I have taken gratitude as an attraction. If that was it then why couldn't I remove her face from my eyes? I am different and she too! I cannot defy my own rules. "Sharya's" are much more dangerous than "Shera's".
Kimaya Mathew
#7. Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.
Osho
#8. I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
Amber Riley
#9. All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
Milan Kundera
#10. Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake
#11. We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
John Cage
#12. The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.
Joan Rivers
#13. Teachers teaches us the rules, but winners make their own rules
Saikat Dey
#14. He would learn the truth. Tonight he would flout his own rules. Meet the girl alone. Ask her a single question. He could afford that.
Renee Ahdieh
#15. Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind
Chikamso C. Efobi
#16. Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.
John Cornyn
#17. You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.
Ice Cube
#18. I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like.
Jennifer Fallon
#19. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
Candace Bushnell
#21. Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
Anthony Lewis
#22. Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Robert Rodriguez
#23. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.
Louise J. Kaplan
#24. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.
Brad Thor
#25. The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.
Roger Goodell
#26. I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we're at a loss to understand why we never win.
Julie Lessman
#27. You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.
Robin Sloan
#28. Programming, it turns out, is hard. The fundamental rules are typically simple and clear. But programs built on top of these rules tend to become complex enough to introduce their own rules and complexity. You're building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.
Marijn Haverbeke
#29. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
Paulo Coelho
#30. From this moment forward, we play by our own rules. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Our new mission begins now.
Lara Adrian
#31. In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
V.S. Naipaul
#32. The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. "How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?"
Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. "Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.
Airicka Phoenix
#33. Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.
Farrah Fawcett
#35. I've broken a lot of my own rules tonight," he said. "Not because I feel sorry for you. I want you. From the moment I first saw you staring at the painting, I wanted you. Come to bed, gorgeous, and claim your fantasy.
Sara Jane Stone
#36. When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.
Grant Bowler
#37. They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
Isaac Newton
#38. I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.
Kourtney Kardashian
#39. Break the rules and make up your own rules.
Elle Meyer
#40. When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
Blaise Pascal
#41. I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.
C.S. Woolley
#42. The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Saul Alinsky
#43. Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
Richard Rohr
#44. I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson
#45. Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.
Eraldo Banovac
#46. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You
Margot Adler
#47. Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet.
I didn't know if they ever would be.
Ruth Ahmed
#49. There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.
Tarang Sinha
#50. We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.
Rafael Cruz
#51. I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.
Travie McCoy
#52. I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.
Marie Helvin
#53. Never say goodbye" he demands. His smile fades. "I'm making my own Rules, Never say goodbye, that's rule number one
Rachel Robinson
#54. Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.
Gene Simmons
#55. I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard
#56. In big organizations there are advantages to consistency, but I strongly believe that smaller groups within the larger whole should be allowed to differentiate themselves and operate according to their own rules, so long as those rules work.
Ed Catmull
#57. The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are ... so make up your own rules.
Neil Gaiman
#58. Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.
Robert Anton Wilson
#59. I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
Leighton Meester
#60. I like Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for instance, because the authors of those three surrealistic novels - Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Robert Pirsig - invented their own rules, knowing that the old ones wouldn't do the job they had in mind.
William Zinsser
#61. That's what happened when you were possessed by a woman. All of a sudden you stopped running from love and started breaking all of your own rules ... making a fool of yourself. I was okay with that. - Caleb Drake
Tarryn Fisher
#62. I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?
Jesse Ball
#63. I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules. On
Robin Sloan
#64. The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.
Kevin DeYoung
#65. Normally, I am a vocal advocate for 'looking both ways' and 'knowing the size of one's own body.' But working, socialising and simply running errands in Manhattan, means I am bound to break my own rules on occasion.
Sloane Crosley
#66. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
Joe Biden
#67. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.
Edith Hahn Beer
#68. Fashion is not a government, is not political; and yet it mantles the world much the way religion does. It includes and enforces its own rules, liturgies, disciplines. It has its own territories, its own language, its own hierarchy.
Richard De Combray
#69. I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.
James Stewart
#70. Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For
once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or
shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my
marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.
Cecelia Ahern
#71. I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
George Carlin
#72. Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
Aimee Mullins
#73. The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper
#74. Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Phil Ochs
#75. The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
Michel Houellebecq
#76. I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.
Cameron Diaz
#77. Next thing I know I'm hiking that sweet, short skirt up over her sweet round ass, breaking my own rules, gonna screw a brunette, on the highway to Hell.
Karen Marie Moning
#78. Live by your own rules. Dont let anybody hold you back. Be different and be yourself. You only get to live once, so make it whatever you want it to be.
A.T. Veatch
#79. The least favorite students were the non-conformists who made up their own rules. Teachers tend to discriminate against highly creative students, labeling them as troublemakers. In
Adam M. Grant
#80. Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
#81. This is the problem with time ... It doesn't follow its own rules. It stretches or compresses at will. It's either a lingering house guest or an escape artist.
Helen Humphreys
#82. No matter how we come to Jesus - whether we are coming to him for the first time or finding our way back to him after faking it, or even if we have tried to be righteous by adding our own rules to the Bible - we are all in need of his grace and truth.
Jefferson Bethke
#83. To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
Calvin Harris
#84. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don't let others tell you how to live according to theirs. When
Rachel Brathen
#85. If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
Renzo Piano
#86. Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.
Zadie Smith
#87. But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
Jenifer Lewis
#88. Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents' paths, your parents' rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
Veronica Roth
#90. The law of attraction didn't apply to us, so we made up our own rules.
Renee Ericson
#91. It's because you're different. You can't live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I've been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.
Ayad Akhtar
#92. While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.
Mia Tyler
#93. If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
Rand Paul
#94. The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock ... it will demand that you adapt to it
Michael Crichton
#95. The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
Nicki Minaj
#96. If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
J.B. Priestley
#97. Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let's embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.
Barack Obama
#98. I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.
Si Robertson
#99. No matter how close thought sticks to the actual, it follows its own rules.
Mason Cooley
#100. Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
D.T. Suzuki
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