Rules Quotes

Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

~ Toba Beta

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

~ Lionel Shriver

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

~ Louise Penny

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

~ John Green

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

~ T.f. Hodge

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

~ Janette Rallison

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.

~ Eraldo Banovac

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

Rules are made to be broken. - Jared

~ Martha Sweeney

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

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

~ Ryan Lilly

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

~ François Du Toit

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.

~ Annie Proulx

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.

~ Frank Herbert

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

(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

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

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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........

~ Dave Rudbarg

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.

~ Andrew Smith

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

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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

~ Robert Mckee

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

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

~ George R.r. Martin

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

~ Abhijit V. Banerjee

Miracles cut corners and beat rules.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ David Chiles

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

~ David Chiles

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

~ Sameh Talhamy

...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

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

~ Kartik Mehta

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?

~ John Irving

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.

~ Amanda Palmer