The Usual Rules Quotes

#1. Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

Diane Ackerman

#2. Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

Alafair Burke

#3. Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

Antonin Scalia

#4. When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

Paul Krugman

#5. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.

Paula McLain

#6. There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?

Terry Pratchett

#7. Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

Nikita Gill

#8. Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Joseph Kosinski

#9. A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#10. I'm mistaken ... .
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.

Coco J. Ginger

#11. Four months ago you refused to believe a place like Croak even existed, and now look at you. All jazzed up and concocting crackpot theories that probably involve a hidden flock of unicorns."
"Or dinosaurs," Lex said with a grin. "Let's not prematurely dismiss a Jurassic Park scenario.

Gina Damico

#12. There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Sinclair Lewis

#13. Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

Brene Brown

#14. My feeling is that contracts should always be honored ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right ...

Gary Bettman

#15. She wasn't used to kisses that were simultaneously startling and wonderful, casual and memorable. Her world was so much smaller than that.

Sarah Cross

#16. Her fingers are still cool, like ivory on piano keys and they are that pale and he looks at her face, drawn and pale too.

Yannick Murphy

#17. We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Mike Crapo

#18. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien