Rules Quotes

when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearances. This whole time I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to be different from my parents, different from my sister, be the one who stuck to the straight and narrow. But I think I had it all wrong, Call. I don’t care about rules or appearances. I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it.

~ Cassandra Clare

most people don't understand what process can do or can't do, chattr it's one of many way to show whoever you're root. Boss still boss and God still God.

~ Creatorbe

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

~ Jonathan Haidt

God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

~ Jennifer Niven

You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

~ Pierce Brown

In the world of mulesThere are no rules.

~ Ogden Nash

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

~ Richard J. Foster

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.

~ Robert Jordan

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.

~ Michael Barnett

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

Success has NO Rules except ONE..It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!

~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady God ever made.Number one: never, ever leave the woods.

~ Jeff Lemire

On the battlefield there are no rules.

~ Joe Abercrombie

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

~ Helen Frankenthaler

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

~ G.s. Sreekiran

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily.

~ Jean Webster

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.

~ Suzanne Palmieri

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

~ Judah Smith

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

~ Steve Maraboli

There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

~ Marilyn Grey

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most likely people to come up with a revolutionary new idea. They feel emotion intensly, but often seem to struggle to read facial expressions.

~ Adele Devine

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

~ Cathryn Louis

As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed in my soul. To me these were as universal, dependable, and invariable as the laws of nature. Together they constituted The Forty Rules of the Religion of Love, which could be attained through love and love only.

~ Elif Shafak

Some are meant to make rules, some are meant to break them. Others just follow.

~ Pushkar Saraf

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

~ Niall Ferguson

Not listening is a good way to get yourself killed here, which is exactly what would have happened if I hadn't come downstairs to see what trouble out resident dipshits had dragged in. You have yet to be ripped to pieces or to be removed of your ability to speak. If you want to keep it that way, I suggest that you learn to obey simple commands. Shut up.

~ Skye Callahan

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

~ Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

~ Libba Bray

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

~ Keri Smith

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.

~ Matthew Fontaine Maury

Good.” He grinned.“I was kind of worried you’d say no. It’s like so against the rules it’s not even funny.”I smiled. “Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you’ve demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules.”He chuckled. “Never met a rule I couldn’t break.

~ Audrey Bell

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

~ Elmore Leonard

Who says I have rules? She waves off my question. Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.

~ Lisa Renee Jones

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

~ John Le Carré

I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.

~ Truth Devour

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

~ Michael Thomas Ford

The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.

~ Stacey Kade