Rules Quotes

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

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.

~ John Green

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!

~ Thomas Carlyle

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

~ Sage Canny

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

What you practice too often, you use without thinking.

~ Robert Jordan

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

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

~ Dan Pearce

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

~ Jodi Taylor

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

~ Kiki

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

~ Anonymous

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

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

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

~ John Green

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

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

~ Neil Gaiman

I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.

~ Anna Kendrick

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

~ Janet Fitch

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

~ Caroline Stevermer

You are remembered for the rules you break.

~ Douglas Macarthur

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

~ Vera Nazarian

Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

~ Mario Puzo

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

~ Yvonne Woon

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.

~ Susan Donovan

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.

~ Anne Lamott

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

~ R.d. Laing

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

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.

~ Heather Burch