Rules Quotes - Page 3

Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

Malcolm Gladwell

3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

Elizabeth Eulberg

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.

Elizabeth Eulberg

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Melina Marchetta

Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

Therese Anne Fowler

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

Error of omission begets new rules.

Toba Beta

It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)

Sheldon B. Kopp

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

David Wroblewski

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

Banksy

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Terry Pratchett

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

Anonymous

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

Kiki

Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn’t exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age. When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test.

Emmet Fox

I learned the rules mastered them like a pro. Then break them easily like an artist without any trouble." ― Sage Canny

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!

I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever - totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.Which is to say: there are no rules.Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world, unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

F. Scott Fitzgerald

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Be Yourself: It is proper netiquette to act as you do in reality on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you. Netiquette NetworkEtiquette.net

Miracles cut corners and beat rules.

If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

George R.R. Martin

I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good.

Fuminori Nakamura

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Catherynne M. Valente

We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule.Boys are not allowed to love each other.Then we painted a bison on the wall.

One of the reasons the team on NCIS works so well-is that they live by their leader's rules-which are not a secret .What are your rules/standards? Do the people in your life know what they are? Do you hold grudges/resentments when they don't measure up? Do you pretend that everything is fine-when it's not-and close up a little every day?And most importantly-When was the last time YOU reviewed/upgraded your standards/expectations rules-and took a look at the impact around you/checked in?(Hint-most people live from rules/standards/expectations created from reactions/perceptions formed around the age of six)Might be time for a review/upgrade........

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing.

James Carlos Blake

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

Catherynne M. Valente

(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

Chris Dee

We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is, in the end, just as disappointing and oppressive as a community based on the ability to follow rules.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.

We don’t make the decisions, just does what we’re told where and when we’re told. We lives by rules made somewhere else by sons a bitches don’t know nothin’ about this place.

The moment you exchange spontaneity with rules you've lost the edge of romance

François Du Toit

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Hyman G. Rickover

Rules are made to be broken." - Jared

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

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