Rules For Quotes

#1. There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

#2. People, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.

Timothy Ferriss

#3. There are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass.
Amen.

Marianne Williamson

#4. Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Erik Erikson

#5. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

Gene Wolfe

#6. There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

Henry Boyd

#7. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

Guy Finley

#8. Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

Angeles Arrien

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

Mario Cuomo

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

Mark Hart

#15. Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.

Trevor Phillips

#16. Cassie's Rules for a Happy Life:
#1 - Don't Lie
#2 - Don't Cheat
#3 - Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
#4 - Don't Say Things You Don't Mean

J. Sterling

#17. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

Van Jones

#18. My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Twiggy

#19. There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Amity Shlaes

#20. I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

Robert Kurson

#21. You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

Zola Jesus

#22. STOP!' Keefe held up his hands. 'Ground rules for this conversation: All talk of alicorn baby-making is off the table
got it? Otherwise I'll have to rip my ears off.

Shannon Messenger

#23. Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.

Bonnie Bassler

#24. I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Malcolm X

#25. We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

Megan Whalen Turner

#26. Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs.

Ron Suskind

#27. I gaped at what I saw next. She yanked his arm off and ate it. Gross! I knew she was hungry, but that was just ... well, against the school rules for one thing.

Imogen Rose

#28. Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Marcus Aurelius

#29. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

Mark Frost

#30. Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.

Walter J. Phillips

#31. Every state sets its own rules for adoptions, and the steps the Bryans took to secure legal protections for themselves and their daughters illustrate the hoops many gay couples jump through when becoming parents.

Anonymous

#32. In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

Sigmar Gabriel

#33. We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.

Angela Merkel

#34. If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Mercedes Lackey

#35. Three rules for a career: 1) Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself; 2) Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.

Charlie Munger

#36. Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#37. Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Susan Sontag

#38. Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Tim O'Reilly

#39. ...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.

Dan Riskin

#40. Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple ... There's a human-rights issue.'

Terry Pratchett

#41. Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.

Haruki Murakami

#42. There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Paul Newman

#43. There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

Athol Fugard

#44. It was, however, striking - in the best sense of the word - that precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.

Thomas Mann

#45. If God makes you wander, keep calm, don't worry and go by His rules for He will surely show you what will make you wonder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#46. He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.

Karen Marie Moning

#47. The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things.

Bill Walsh

#48. Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

#49. When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Henry David Thoreau

#50. My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

Emo Philips

#51. I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Joni Mitchell

#52. We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing these rules. Confronting traditional lyricism, I speak with a bare body without the tattoos of culture on it.

Kim Hyesoon

#53. I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress ...

William Howard Taft

#54. The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can find the rules for the way that the universe generally works. But if you were to try and use it to prove that Henry VIII had six wives, you would be powerless.

Lewis N. Roe

#55. There are two rules for sucess:
1. Never tell everything you know.

Roger H. Lincoln

#56. Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?

Karen Marie Moning

#57. Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#58. Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

Hutch Harris

#59. There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

Blaise Pascal

#60. For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#61. There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is "Don't be stupid."
I'm about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

Pittacus Lore

#62. We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

Mary Schapiro

#63. I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.

Lisa Kleypas

#64. I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

#65. The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more: Start everything and Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)

Barbara Sher

#66. India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

Vikas Swarup

#67. I had just two rules for their virtual reality worlds: No shooting violence and no pornography. I issued that decree mostly because those things have been done in computer games only about a zillion times, and I was looking for original thinking.

Randy Pausch

#68. Rules for writing the first line? The last line?
First line: Make them want more.
Last line: Make them want the next book.

Darynda Jones

#69. Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. - BILL COSBY

Timothy Ferriss

#70. Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.

Pearl Zhu

#71. And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Tod Goldberg

#72. People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#73. The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

Mason Cooley

#74. It was against the rules for children or adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas

Lois Lowry

#75. Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.

R.C. Sproul

#76. Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag.

Katie McGarry

#77. I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

Martha Stewart

#78. Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

Michael Isikoff

#79. Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don't fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.

Ashley Elston

#80. There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Thomas Beecham

#81. When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: "What
the hell are you doing?" Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: "Studying Martian and the rules for
hopscotch -- fraternally yours -- Ben.

Robert A. Heinlein

#82. 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

#83. You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do.

Karen Marie Moning

#84. The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Jacob Bronowski

#85. They're measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant," he says. "There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#86. Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.

Bobby Jindal

#87. I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.

Eric Schneiderman

#88. Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that.

Jessica Love

#89. One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

Nicholas Sparks

#90. You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Lawrence Taylor

#91. Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.

William Shakespeare

#92. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.

Mark Frost

#93. The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

Henriette Mantel

#94. Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.

Monica Johnson

#95. Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Huston Smith

#96. But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.

Fannie Hurst

#97. Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#98. If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

Jon Rappoport

#99. To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.

Omar Khayyam

#100. I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Amos Lee