Top 100 Quotes About Rules
#1. Which is better - to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill? ... law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up?
William Golding
#2. What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
Philippe Petit
#4. JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
Jamie Dimon
#5. In mari's view this difficulty was due not to chaos or disorganization or anarchy , but to an excess of order. Society had more & more rules , and laws that contradicted the rules , and new rules that contradicted the laws.
Paulo Coelho
#6. You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.
Peter Turchi
#7. There's no crying in baseball and no love in Hell. It's just the rules. You could say it's against our religion, more or less.
Lisa Desrochers
#8. I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
Jeff Beck
#9. Remember that the policies are only that:
policies - not rules that must be followed. They
can, and should, be broken from time to time,
but the decision to do so should be made
intentionally and often with careful consideration
from the whole team.
Joakim Sunden
#11. Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.
Kenya Wright
#12. To me, the most important rules in life are:
1. Never trust people you love.
2. Never trust people you don't love.
3. Never trust people at all.
Girl234
#13. Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.
Tony Robbins
#14. What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.
James Chanos
#15. Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his. But now we were united in villainy. Or something.
Lia Habel
#16. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.
Josh Malerman
#17. New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.
Benjamin Booker
#18. Accepting favors from fiends was so against the rules. Like potato chips, you couldn't stop at just one, then you'd find yourself at Hell's front door trying to explain why your soul had a big brand on it that said Property of Lucifer.
Jana Oliver
#19. Lizzie ignored the hair in her armpits and on her legs. It had gone from stubble to dark hair. F*** it. End of the world rules apply.
Robert L. Slater
#20. Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#21. Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
#22. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
Neil Gaiman
#23. It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
Vanessa Paradis
#24. They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game
R.D. Laing
#25. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. - Dee Hock
David Allen
#26. Allow me a bit of philosophy here ... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
Paul Parker
#27. When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#28. Important lesson there: you don't survive in the field by obeying all the
rules, including those relating to mental processes
Terry Pratchett
#29. It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway.
Katja Millay
#30. I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.
Tim Berners-Lee
#31. There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
Victor Niederhoffer
#32. This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.
Steve Maraboli
#33. All human rules are more or less idiotic.
Mark Twain
#34. If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.
Rene Balcer
#35. Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.
Libba Bray
#36. Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.
Louise Hay
#37. If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
Daniel Tammet
#38. Cross that rules the Southern Sky!
Stars that sweep, and turn, and fly
Hear the Lovers' Litany: -
'Love like ours can never die!
Rudyard Kipling
#39. he'd learned the secret of a richer, more powerful adult rage. "It isn't how it was! It never will be again! They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off." He cinched his belt tight. "If They apologized, if They showed
Lev Grossman
#40. Was I a dreamer, looking for an elusive happiness that real life could never deliver? Or were we meant to know the rapture of being alive, even at the cost of breaking the rules?
Elizabeth Lesser
#41. On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.
Ronald Kessler
#42. I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
Kanye West
#43. I'm an eclectic assortment of power and pride. I don't need rules or labels. Though if there was one I would lay claim to every time, it is as simple as it is misunderstood. I am a witch.
Hollow Ryan
#44. So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
Stephen Wolfram
#45. Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
William Shakespeare
#46. Life lesson number 12: As your life changes, change you rules accordingly. Nothing is set in stone when it comes to living.
-Park
Cheryl McIntyre
#48. You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.
Ang Lee
#49. You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.
Abbey Drake
Christine Feehan
#50. But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.
Lionel Shriver
#51. If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.
Jim Gilmore
#52. God's reply to Job makes one simple point: while human beings may have questions about how the Lord rules His world, they have no justification for demanding answers from Him. He is the Creator, but we are the creatures.
Anonymous
#53. For me, it's just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.
Adam Schlesinger
#54. One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
Solomon
#55. I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you're completely free.
Richard Kadrey
#56. The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.
Charisse Montgomery
#57. Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken.
L. H. Cosway
#58. Traditions are like rules, they are meant to be broken.
A.E. Croft
#59. To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.
Claudia Black
#60. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Neil Gaiman
#61. Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
Timothy Keller
#62. The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
Richard Linklater
#63. When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
Charlie Ergen
#64. In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.
Hiroyuki Asada
#65. Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.
Theresa May
#66. Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.
Marvin Hier
#67. There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.
Mike Royer
#68. Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
Bob Dylan
#69. The question wasn't when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society's rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
Courtney Milan
#70. If everyone followed the rules, we wouldn't be human ... And I'd choose that than being a Robot over any day.
Jet Raymond Hodgkin
#71. A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful..
Goswami Kriyananda
#72. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.
Lauren Oliver
#73. The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
Kaz Cooke
#74. The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.
Steven A. Cohen
#75. The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is LIFE. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. NEXT to that, all rules and religions in the worldare secondary, mere words and beliefs that people CHOOSE to believe and KILL and HATE by.
James McBride
#76. You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.
Katja Millay
#77. I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
Donatella Versace
#78. A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.
James Beard
#80. The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.
Marcus Buckingham
#81. One of Spenser's rules of detection is: Never poke around on an empty stomach. So I unpacked, got my gun, and went down for a club sandwich and
Robert B. Parker
#82. There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.
Jessica Zafra
#83. Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this."
"Oh?" I turn at the waist and look at him curiously. "What kind of ground rules?"
He smiles.
"Well, number one: my car, my stereo; I'm sure I don't need to elaborate on that.
J.A. Redmerski
#84. I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out - a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.
Junot Diaz
#85. There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Mario Cuomo
#86. It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.
John Marshall
#87. History had no lessons or rules to offer the student, it could only broaden his understanding and strengthen his critical judgment.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#88. Rules give anarchy something to aim at. Points
Jodi Taylor
#89. Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
Stevie Jackson
#91. Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.
Austin Grossman
#92. I have rules, and I want you to comply with them. They are for your benefit and for my pleasure. If you follow these rules to my satisfaction, I shall reward you. If you don't, I shall punish you, and you will learn.
E.L. James
#93. although she was disposed to follow the rules whenever possible, she was also willing to discard them when necessary.
Lisa Kleypas
#94. The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?
Aaron Copland
#95. To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.
David Shields
#96. I know, O LORD, that your rules are p righteous, and that in q faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Anonymous
#97. How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.
Jean Piaget
#99. President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'
Ron Wyden
#100. Society didn't mind if you broke the rules; it only required you to acknowledge them.
G. Willow Wilson
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