Quotes About Bending The Rules

#1. 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

#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. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Agatha Christie

#4. 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

#5. If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

Ringo Starr

#6. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

Kevin Mitnick

#7. He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Julian Of Norwich

#8. 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

#9. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

Richard Siken

#10. Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Robin Sharma

#11. You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

Chadwick Boseman

#12. I think more people need to make out.

Josh Homme

#13. With eye and hand and breath and will.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

Cal Thomas

#15. People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

John Ortberg

#16. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.

Cidney Swanson

#17. It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.

Mark Warkentin