Quotes About Rule Breaking

#1. When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

Nate Berkus

#2. Part of the training of a Special Circumstances agent was learning a) that the rules were supposed to be broken sometimes, b) just how to go about breaking the rules, and c) how to get away with it, whether the rule-breaking had led to a successful outcome or not.

Iain M. Banks

#3. In this chapter, we'll picture these rule-making and rule-breaking parts of you as humans. Tiny humans. We'll call them the Dictator and the Wild Child.

Martha N. Beck

#4. Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.

Carla H. Krueger

#5. Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Caitlin Kittredge

#6. When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.

David D. Burns

#7. I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following.

Matt Nix

#8. I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Catch my eye,tell me what you see
Wonder if they could guess it about me
Here i'm standing in a double life
One with love,one with strife
Try to act normal,and play it cool
So afraid of breaking a rule
But now i'm falling to hard to stop
Can't help but take the next drop

Alexandra Monir

#10. Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

Ryan Lilly

#11. Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.

David Livermore

#12. Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Bob Marley

#13. Consequences of breaking the rules should fit the rule broken and should have the aim of teaching her the repercussions of antisocial behavior; they should not have the aim of being punitive.

Virginia Beane Rutter

#14. I'd never met anyone like him before. Every rule I'd ever learned, he was breaking; everything I'd been taught to hide away, he announced it out loud.

Abigail Haas

#15. It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Barbara Castle

#16. Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

Bernie Mac

#17. Good." He grinned.
"I was kind of worried you'd say no. It's like so against the rules it's not even funny."
I smiled. "Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you've demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules."
He chuckled. "Never met a rule I couldn't break.

Audrey Bell

#18. Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

James Luceno

#19. Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Ja Rule

#20. I don't use airplane bathrooms. As a rule. And I really don't like breaking rules. (It's kind of one of my rules.) I mean, if I'm going to plummet to my death, it's not going to be with my pants around my ankles.

Lauren Morrill

#21. He cleared his throat, very carefully, to bring the stillness to a more bearable level without breaking the unwritten rule that governs both churches and freshly fallen blankets of snow.

Anna Mattaar

#22. While sin is sometimes thought of today as the breaking of a rule, these metaphors emphasize that it is the breaking of a relationship, an act of treachery against the Lord, the faithful covenant king and father and husband.

Keith L. Johnson

#23. The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

William Safire

#24. Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna.
"Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

#26. Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

E.J. Koh

#27. Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself

Kim Harrison

#28. There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

Lois Lowry

#29. Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

John Irving

#30. Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.

Alyson Noel

#31. I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

Clare Short

#32. Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#33. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Banksy

#34. There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Tom Watson

#35. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

Edwin Meese

#36. I don't regret one day of breaking that rule. Because it'd mean regretting every moment that I spent with Baylee. And I don't. I just don't. I can't.

Krista Ritchie