Top 78 Rules Broken Quotes
#1. Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.
Bill Gates
#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. Vampires are fond of their games. But the games that They play are different than the variants that I'm familiar with. The rules were made to be bent, broken, shattered - and somebody always gets hurt.
Always.
Nenia Campbell
#4. If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-and-fast rules. I have rules about what I won't read, rather than what I will. No science fiction, no romance, no chick lit. Although even these rules can be broken.
Sonya Hartnett
#6. The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
Aaron Sorkin
#7. 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
#8. In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.
Elliott Colla
#9. Some rules, boy, are meant to be broken. That is where the skill lies, of any true leader; deciding which rules should be broken and which should be kept intact.
Bella Forrest
#10. He had broken one of the cardinal rules - Never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself - and he'd been loving life ever since. They
Christopher Moore
#11. What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.
Jodi Picoult
#12. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.
Colleen Hoover
#14. The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Mason Cooley
#15. I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.
Lois Lerner
#16. Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.
Robert Jordan
#17. Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
Sam Hunt
#18. The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.
Stacey Kade
#19. Resolutions are just like rules. They're just made to be broken.
Justin Timberlake
#20. I 'confess' I have NEVER 'broken' any Rules..
I must 'admit',I have NEVER 'followed any...
FAILED RULE FOLLOWER!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#21. You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.
Fuminori Nakamura
#22. That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken
Nenia Campbell
#24. 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
#25. Make mistakes, Lille. Walk on the cracks. Break the rules that were made to be broken.
L. H. Cosway
#26. Traditions are like rules, they are meant to be broken.
A.E. Croft
#27. Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.
Douglas MacArthur
#28. The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
E. O. Wilson
#29. There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.
Madeleine L'Engle
#30. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Barton Gellman
#31. I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.
Tony Robbins
#33. I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.
Tana French
#34. You are the greatest friend that's a girl I've ever met. If Jaxon doesn't come to his damn senses, then some lucky guy out there will be thankful to be loved by you one day.
Kimberly Lauren
#35. Sometimes rules have to be broken; sometimes you have to follow your heart. Sometimes doing what you're told isn't always the right thing to do. I'm sure we wouldn't have all these great inventions and philosophies if people always just did what they were told.
Dannika Dark
#37. Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.
Billy Herman
#38. Yeah, the world here is full of rules and most of them need to be followed. Some can be bent," I said, and continued with a smile, "and others can be broken.
Rajat Mishra
#39. The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
Jeffery Keedy
#40. Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
Vernor Vinge
#43. When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant.
Jonas Samuelle
#45. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.
Infallibility is a sin in any man.
All laws can be broken and are.
Often.
Craig Ferguson
#46. There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.
William Davis
#47. A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Terence McKenna
#48. When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
Betsy Cornwell
#49. This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?
Lisi Harrison
#50. Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal.
Kimberly Lauren
#51. Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.
Kevin Hosey
#52. Rules
Rules,
like hearts,
were meant to be broken
Beryl Dov
#53. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.
Ian McDonald
#54. But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.
Ilsa J. Bick
#55. Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
Janet Fitch
#56. Echo lived her life according to two rules, the first of which was simple: don't get caught.
........ Some rules it would seam were meant to be broken..........
Rule number two, Echo thought snagging a pork bun from a food stall as she sailed past it. If you do get caught, run.
Melissa Grey
#57. Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how
little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be
broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.
James Wong Howe
#58. Here's to honor. Get on her. Stay on her. If you fall off. Get back on her. If you can't cum in her. Cum on her! Happy Birthday Man!
Kimberly Lauren
#59. Geez, Em, stop checking him out so noticeably."
"Sorry! It's just so hard. I mean he's my boyfriend's identical twin. Obviously I like this brand." I gestured with my hand up and down, indicating Jace.
Kimberly Lauren
#60. A human wasn't an acceptable boyfriend for a witch; nor would a human wish to date a witch. The two would never in a million light years be interested in each other. Then, again, unwritten rules were made to be broken.
Terry Spear
#61. The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
Nicolas Roeg
#62. The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.
Which is to say: there are no rules.
Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.
Amanda Palmer
#63. Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#64. Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Darin Strauss
#65. Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.
Julian Baggini
#66. Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.
Heather Burch
#67. Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.
Marc Andreessen
#68. Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.
Alyson Noel
#69. The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
Tom Udall
#70. Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical.
Tim Ferriss
#72. Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.
Ted Agon
#73. The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
Deacon Jones
#74. 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
#75. Your voice is a little like cocaine. You could bottle that stuff up and sell it.
Kimberly Lauren
#76. Whatever was bound to happen
in my story did not happen.
But I know there are rules that cannot be broken.
Perhaps a name was changed.
A small mistake. Perhaps
a woman I do not know
is facing the day with the heavy heart
that, by all rights, should have been mine.
Lisel Mueller
#77. I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."
Richard Branson
#78. The only way to defend language is to attack it ... ' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression, broken a range of rules laid down by previous writers.
Alain De Botton
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