Rules Quotes

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

Steve Maraboli

Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks.

Dov Seidman

Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.

Dov Seidman

rules didn’t do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didn’t keep him warm at night.

Nulli Para Ora

You make your own rules and then break one, that's really horrible.

Moath Almasri

I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?

W. Eugene Smth

1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure

Henry Miller

I play by the rules even when there aren’t any.

Stacy Kramer

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Dan Wells

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken

Nenia Campbell

He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly.""It's nature," she said, thoughtfully."I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Terry Pratchett

Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.‘If you follow them’, said the Sergeant, ‘you will save your soul and never get a fall on a slippery road.

Flann O'Brien

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

Keri Smith

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Good.” He grinned.“I was kind of worried you’d say no. It’s like so against the rules it’s not even funny.”I smiled. “Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you’ve demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules.”He chuckled. “Never met a rule I couldn’t break.

Audrey Bell

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Elmore Leonard

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody

John Lanchesterter

Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.

Lisa Renee Jones

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

John le Carré

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

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

Truth Devour

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

Michael Thomas Ford

The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.

Stacey Kade

RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOWBEWARE OF DOGANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXESDO NOT STEAL QUEENSA GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINSNECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATIONEVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATERWHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP

Catherynne M. Valente

For those of us who can, there are certain precautions we must take in order to protect ourselves and those around us. The first and most important is this-never acknowledge the dead. Don't look at them, don't speak to them don't let them sense your fear. Even when they touch you"..."The second thing you must remember is this," Papa said. "Never stray too far from hallowed ground."..."Rule Number Three," he said. "Keep your distance from those who are haunted. If they seek you out, turn away from them, for they constitute a terrible threat and cannot be trusted." ..."Rule Number Four," he said sternly. "Never, ever tempt fate.

Amanda Stevens

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

Robert A. Heinlein

Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.

Tyffani Clark Kemp

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

Patti Digh

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got." (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)

William Shatner

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.

Chuck Palahniuk

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father" ("Obedience Brings Blessings," April 2013 General Conference).

Thomas S. Monson

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

James Carlos Blake

Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ..."In a better world..." she began patiently."No, not in a better world!" he cried. "In this one--in this world. I take this world as a given. Talk to me about this world!" ..."Oh, I can't always be right," Larch said tiredly."Yes, I know," Nurse Caroline said sympathetically. "It's because even a good man can't always be right that we need a society, that we need certain rules--call them priorities, if you prefer," she said. ...Always in the background of his mind, there was a newborn baby crying... And they were not crying to be born, he knew; they were crying because they were born.

John Irving

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Helen Frankenthaler

Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.

Frances McCall Rosenbluth

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

G.S.Sreekiran

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.

Jean Webster

[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement."[Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then is it?

Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Madeleine L'Engle

I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.

Suzanne Palmieri

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

Judah Smith

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

Steve Maraboli

There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Marilyn Grey

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most likely people to come up with a revolutionary new idea. They feel emotion intensly, but often seem to struggle to read facial expressions.

Adele Devine

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

Cathryn Louis

No exceptions to exceptions!

Raheel Farooq

As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed in my soul. To me these were as universal, dependable, and invariable as the laws of nature. Together they constituted The Forty Rules of the Religion of Love, which could be attained through love and love only.

Elif Shafak

Some are meant to make rules, some are meant to break them. Others just follow.

Pushkar Saraf

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Niall Ferguson

Not listening is a good way to get yourself killed here, which is exactly what would have happened if I hadn't come downstairs to see what trouble out resident dipshits had dragged in. You have yet to be ripped to pieces or to be removed of your ability to speak. If you want to keep it that way, I suggest that you learn to obey simple commands. Shut up.

Skye Callahan

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

Libba Bray

FREEDOM IS WHERE I AM NOT A PRISONER CARRYING A BAGGAGE OF OTHERS RULES.

merlin8thomas

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

Anne Rice

when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearances. This whole time I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to be different from my parents, different from my sister, be the one who stuck to the straight and narrow. But I think I had it all wrong, Call. I don’t care about rules or appearances. I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it.

Cassandra Clare

most people don't understand what process can do or can't do, chattr it's one of many way to show whoever you're root. Boss still boss and God still God.

creatorbe

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

Jonathan Haidt

God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.

Sunday Adelaja

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