Rules Quotes

RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOWBEWARE OF DOGANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXESDO NOT STEAL QUEENSA GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINSNECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATIONEVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATERWHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP

~ Catherynne M. Valente

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.

~ Tyffani Clark Kemp

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

~ Patti Digh

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)

~ William Shatner

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

~ James Carlos Blake

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks.

~ Dov Seidman

Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.

~ Dov Seidman

rules didn’t do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didn’t keep him warm at night.

~ Nulli Para Ora

1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring.3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure

~ Henry Miller

I play by the rules even when there aren’t any.

~ Stacy Kramer

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between ignoring her completely and abducting her at knifepoint.

~ Dan Wells

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken

~ Nenia Campbell

Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.‘If you follow them’, said the Sergeant, ‘you will save your soul and never get a fall on a slippery road.

~ Flann O'brien

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

~ Lee Iacocca

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

~ Suzanne Fields

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

~ Michael Korda

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

~ Kelly Clarkson

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

~ Vince Cable

I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

~ Arnold Palmer

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

~ Naomi Watts

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

~ Christopher Wren

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

~ Francois Hollande

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

~ Roger Goodell

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

~ Jean Piaget

The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.

~ Jose Mujica

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.

~ Yusef Komunyakaa

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

~ Leon Trotsky

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

~ Jean Kerr

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

~ Anna Quindlen

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

~ Eliot Spitzer

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

~ Virginia Satir

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

~ Billie Jean King

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

~ Darell Hammond

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

~ John Madden