Set Of Rules Quotes

#1. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199

Shamus Rahman Khan

#2. What Wittgenstein calls a 'grammar' is a set of rules by which we are able to make sense of things; and such grammars are not correlated with reality. It is not as though some of them provide us with a more accurate representation

Terry Eagleton

#3. Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an exploration of history, nutrition, the human diet, and, most important, our health.

Liz Wolfe

#4. To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

Les Paul

#5. Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Denise Van Outen

#6. Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Stephanie Cutter

#7. But your way isn't just that set of rules," Cord said. "It's who you are - you follow that way for bigger reasons. And as long as you stay true to that, the confusion you're talking about will sort itself out eventually.

Neal Stephenson

#8. I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Simon Cowell

#9. We don't punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn't heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.

Jo Nesbo

#10. What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

John Prescott

#11. One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.

John Faso

#12. There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

Kevin Durand

#13. I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

Arnold Palmer

#14. The word 'glamour' comes from the word 'grammar', and since the Chomskyan revolution the etymology has been fitting. Who could not be dazzled by the creative power of the mental grammar, by its ability to convey an infinite number of thoughts with a finite set of rules?

Steven Pinker

#15. Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.

Julianne Moore

#16. A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Frank Dane

#17. The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Louis MacNeice

#18. Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

Janet Evanovich

#19. In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

Steven Soderbergh

#20. There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.

Elizabeth Warren

#21. Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

Ethel Waters

#22. How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

Iris Johansen

#23. Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

Kenneth Stafford Norris

#24. There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life.

Stuart Pearce

#25. I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Kiran Desai

#26. After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.

Brendan Daly

#27. I dislike being held to a set of rules for no reason other than to create the impression of order, whether it exists or not.

Karen Hawkins

#28. Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

John Trudell

#29. Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Albert Einstein

#30. There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

Claire McCaskill

#31. ...(he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Lesa Cline-Ransome

#32. The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

Angela Lansbury

#33. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#34. Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Francis Chan

#35. We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

Ted Turner

#36. Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

Eric Schneiderman

#37. To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

David Gross

#38. I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Joel Osteen

#39. The difference between a pro trader and an amateur lies not in their methodology, not in their knowledge, but rather in their ability to follow their set of rules.

Yvan Byeajee

#40. Men. They were fucking men. Hard-core, badass, live by their own set of rules ... men.

Madeline Sheehan

#41. Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.

Patrick Rothfuss

#42. Style isn't an excuse to cook without a standard. Style just determines the set of rules you choose.

Eddie Huang

#43. Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there's a whole other set of rules for game writing, and we're changing them as we move along as well, which makes it more challenging.

Rhianna Pratchett

#44. I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

Beth Ditto

#45. There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Tom Ridge

#46. Attraction doesn't follow a set of rules, you know. But I know that I don't look at the others like I look at you.

Maya Banks

#47. Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else and operating under her own set of rules.

Dana Perino

#48. I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

Susanne Bier

#49. We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.

Hans H Wellisch

#50. We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters ... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules ... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Michelle Obama

#51. We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

C.S. Lewis

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. I was learning the nature of magic; it seemed to work according to a strict set of rules. And yet, somehow, it never worked in quite the way you expected.

Juliet Marillier

#55. People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

Tony Abbott

#56. We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

Billy Graham

#57. Lawyer and technology writer Richard Koman, argued that Google has become a true believer in its own goodness, a belief which justifies its own set of rules regarding corporate ethics, anti-competition, customer service and its place in society.

Nicholas Carr

#58. 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

#59. The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations - it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.

Oswald Chambers

#60. Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#61. The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

John Chancellor

#62. I am unique ... I play by a different set of rules; I am not intimidated by anything.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#63. When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Rahm Emanuel

#64. I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

Harold Town

#65. Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#66. Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

Geoff Mulgan

#67. New York police force seems like unlike any other in America and even the world. There's a very specific culture dynamic, a specific chemistry. There's almost a specific set of rules because of the city and the size of it.

Theo James

#68. Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

Matthew Kelly

#69. The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.

Billy Idol

#70. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

Frederick Lenz

#71. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.

Jessica Posner

#72. For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

Marilyn French

#73. If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

Abe Lemons

#74. I understand the need for conformity. Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense. Discipline is the key to conformity, and it is important that we learn not to question authority at an early age.

David Thorne

#75. Islam is not a set of rules. It's a way of seeing life and the world.

Nouman Ali Khan

#76. That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

Eric Schneiderman

#77. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

Abraham Lincoln

#78. I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

Lorde

#79. I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

Seth Rogen

#80. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Jim Leyland

#81. I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

Lebbeus Woods

#82. Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It's all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Thomas C. Foster

#83. People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.

Judith Martin

#84. Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

Geoff Davis

#85. The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality
which became America's
was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

Hugh Hefner

#86. As always, when faced with a dilemma, he planned to by by his own set of rules. Act positively, plan negatively, expect nothing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#87. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."

George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#88. The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Kelly Clarkson

#89. The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's where I find a lot of inspiration. There is just as much beauty there, but there is also decay and violence.

Carrie Brownstein

#90. Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.

Robert C. Martin

#91. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.

Douglas Adams

#92. Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Charlton Laird

#93. you must play by a new set of rules - because, increasingly, the tried-and-true tenets of success are just tried, not true.

Blake Mycoskie

#94. Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.

Sonja Yoerg

#95. I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

Nicholas Royle

#96. Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Isaac Asimov

#97. There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

Naomi Watts

#98. Mother was just as glad to have me out of the house and harm's way. She did give me some advice. You can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid.

Karen Joy Fowler

#99. I think it is great to unite all kickboxing styles under one set of rules.

Duke Roufus

#100. I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

Red Auerbach