Usual Rules Quotes

#1. 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

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

Diane Ackerman

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Amber Tamblyn

#7. We all understood why Chelsea was important. In

Stephenie Meyer

#8. He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#9. Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Jenni Schaefer

#10. But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Karl Rahner

#11. We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...

May Sarton

#12. Her novels, which I have not yet read, are usually described as the work of a writer's writer, or perhaps of someone who has been to the Institute for the Theory of Literature in Zagreb.

Clive James

#13. To be silent, to keep myself absolutely hidden, nothing else.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Ken Burns

#15. Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

Nouman Ali Khan

#16. Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder ... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

Andrea Martin