Rules Quotes

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

~ Nick Harkaway

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

~ Immanuel Kant

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take the

~ Jim Jarmusch

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

~ Criss Jami

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

~ Jack Foster

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

~ Roger Von Oech

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

~ Richard Rohr

Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Rules for navigating the net, Or people will roll their eye Lest you can't roll the R rect: Literally, don´t dink and dive!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.

~ Virginia Woolf

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

~ Glenda Millard

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules

~ Betsy Cornwell

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.--Terri Mitchell

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

~ Robin Hobb

Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

~ Derrick A. Bell

The real beauty of life is in orderliness.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

~ Julia Quinn

The rule was that they never went to the same place twice

~ Mhairi Mcfarlane

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

~ Ryan Lilly

Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!

~ Denise Moreland

Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Three simple rules in life: If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

~ Anonymous

And magic exists to break the rules.

~ Jan Siegel

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

~ Criss Jami

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

~ Justin Buzzard

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.

~ Brandon Andress

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

~ Tahir Shah

We have a set of rules for our faith, our sexuality, our marriages, our dating relationships, for choosing a church—nothing is off-limits. We tell ourselves to always do this, and never do that, and everything will turn out perfectly. Worse than that, we back up our rules with Bible verses and tell everyone else to follow them too.

~ Allison Fallon