Rules Quotes

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

~ William Hazlitt

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

~ Thomas Sowell

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

~ Ross Perot

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

~ Andrew Breitbart

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

~ Michael Ignatieff

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

~ William Hazlitt

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

~ Steven Pinker

I think actually it's kind of sad because something I looked forward to just getting to the NFL growing up was just being able to have more fun, the rules loosen up, being able to celebrate.

~ Ezekiel Elliott

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

~ James Cameron

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

~ Unknown

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

~ Iggy Pop

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

~ Carl Bernstein

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

~ Ashley Tisdale

I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'

~ Anya Taylor-Joy

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

~ Moon Unit Zappa

I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.

~ Mary Frann

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

~ Ryszard Kapuściński

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

~ Zack Greinke

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

~ Marvin Minsky

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

~ George Ade

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

~ Mindy Kaling

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

~ Joyce Meyer

Small unit autonomy, breaking the right rules, cultural influence, and relationship building has always been the heart Special Operations. Something must be done to ensure these are not lost to the big machine of SOCOM.

~ Brandon Webb

We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'

~ Steve Harvey

I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

~ Jim Evans

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

~ Louis Macneice

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

~ Harry Day

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

~ Robert Kennedy

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

~ Walter Scott

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

~ Martin Luther King

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

~ Bear Grylls

Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.

~ Julianne Moore

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

~ Harry Reid

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

~ Jimmy Cliff

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

~ Shelby Foote

If we're going to pass international trade agreements, as we should, they should have similar kind of rules, not as high a wage as obviously as a steelworker in the U.S. or in Lorain, Ohio, but certainly rules on the environment and worker safety. You go to Mexico, you don't see those kinds of worker protections or environmental safeguards.

~ Sherrod Brown