Who Made The Rules Quotes

#1. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

Jack Weatherford

#2. I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

#3. The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Steven Levy

#4. Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

Anonymous

#5. Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Alan Rickman

#6. 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

#7. All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.

Jaden Smith

#8. Rules are made to be broken." - Jared

Martha Sweeney

#9. What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

Patti Digh

#10. Karen made a face. "Oh, c'mon."
"I don't think so," I said.
"Old Play-by-the-Rules McKinley," said Brian, laughing at me.
I could hardly stand him. "You've got that right," I said, and turned away.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#11. Who made up all these rules anyway? If you think God's got rules, then you need another view of God.

Art Hochberg

#12. I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Red Smith

#13. The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

John Wycliffe

#14. Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Ma Jun

#18. The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. "How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?"
Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. "Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.

Airicka Phoenix

#19. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.

Edith Hahn Beer

#20. Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.

Dan Pearce

#21. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Neil Gaiman

#22. Kaylin hated politics. Hated them. She hated the stupid decisions, the game playing, the grandstanding. She hated political decisions made by people who never had to do any of the law's actual work. She hated the pervasive sense of superiority and smugness that underlay all of the rules.

Michelle Sagara

#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. Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#25. I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth.
Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth.
It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play.
Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.

Lauryn Hill

#26. The least favorite students were the non-conformists who made up their own rules. Teachers tend to discriminate against highly creative students, labeling them as troublemakers. In

Adam M. Grant

#27. Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?

Ulysses Brave

#28. But the rules are made by people who couldn't win without 'em.

Jeff Lindsay

#29. The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

Kevin DeYoung

#30. Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Chris Hardwick

#31. As I say, all all he wanted from the manuscript was the string. That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next. On the day of the bomb it was string. [ ... ] He had no use at all for tricks and games and rules that other people made up.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

Thomas Carlyle

#33. I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Raymond Chandler

#34. We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. We remember those who made the art from which the "rules" inevitably follow.

David Bayles

#35. Type A Ellie liked to know the rules, like knowing what to expect. Flying blind made her nervous. He prepared to make her all kinds of nervous.

Samanthe Beck

#36. Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Gordon

#37. She had rules, good ones. No men with brains. No men with power. No men who might find themselves on the opposite side of the O'Kanes for any reason that mattered. And, most especially, no men who made her feel things that might make her forget the reasons she needed those rules. Nessa

Kit Rocha

#38. But as often is the case with short people - he never grew past five foot three - once he made up his mind about something, no matter how trivial it might be, he never backed down. And he was bothered by illogical rules and by teachers who couldn't meet his exacting

Haruki Murakami

#39. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.' 'There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead.

Patrick O'Brian

#40. As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

Laozi

#41. You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.

Elizabeth Noble

#42. When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

Edward Snowden

#43. Success has NO Rules except ONE..
It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#44. Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own.

Christofer Emgard

#45. Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Chetan Bhagat

#46. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

Libba Bray

#47. But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.

Jennifer Saunders

#48. I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Amy Klobuchar

#49. The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

George Bernard Shaw

#50. Did this bother him because he'd made rules about his life? Or did the rules about his life come because things like this bothered him?

Laurelin Paige

#51. Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

Nick Clooney

#52. It was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr. Franklin the most amiable of men in society, never to contradict anybody.

Thomas Jefferson

#53. Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Chuck Yeager

#54. Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.

Kristin Hannah

#55. but rules are made to be broken.

Kyra Davis

#56. The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

Ashton Kutcher

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

Ethel Waters

#58. The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster.
Psyche had been right. Cupid was a monster. Love was the most savage monster of all.

Rick Riordan

#59. It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Agona Apell

#60. My mom was more into the yelling. She was the enforcer. She was the one that laid down the law. My dad made up the rules, but my mom laid down the law. It's not her words, it's her tone that sticks with me.

Ashton Kutcher

#61. Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

Rick Riordan

#62. I invented the colors of the vowels!
A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green
I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

Arthur Rimbaud

#63. Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

Kevin Hosey

#64. The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

#65. Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

Dan Roam

#66. My family is just embarrassingly proud of me. My brothers get a little protective ... overly protective. I've made rules now where I say: "You can't go outside and scream at people if they have cameras!"

Kristen Stewart

#67. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Brad Thor

#68. Rules are usually in place because they help the people who made them, more than the people who have to follow them. Same goes for people who have questions they want you to answer. Keep some shit just for you. Gives you an edge

S.E. Jakes

#69. Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored.

Natsuo Kirino

#70. Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Robert Rodriguez