Rules Quotes

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

~ Lou Holtz

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

~ Colonel Sanders

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

~ Neil Gaiman

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

~ Anna Kendrick

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

~ Nicolas Cage

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

~ Jacques Chirac

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

~ James M. Buchanan

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

~ Adam Mckay

I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.

~ Geoffrey West

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

~ Hannah Arendt

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

~ Anthony J. D'angelo

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

~ John Madden

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

~ Tommy Caldwell

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

~ Tacitus

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

~ Michael Masser

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.

~ Winslow Homer

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

~ Erik Erikson

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

~ Tom Chatfield

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

~ Don Yaeger

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

~ Julia Child

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

~ Cass Sunstein

The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

~ Carol Moseley Braun

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

~ Jay Alan Sekulow

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

~ Jim Morrison

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

~ Vanessa Paradis

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

~ Barbara Boxer

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

~ Diana Galbadon

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

~ Pep Guardiola

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

~ Naomi Watts

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

~ Tom Clancy

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

~ Kathryn Stockett

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

~ Amity Shlaes

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

~ Leo Durocher

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

~ Akshay Kumar

Imagination rules the world.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

~ Mason Cooley

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

~ Daniel Tammet

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

~ Helen Frankenthaler

Works of art make rules rules do not make works of art.

~ Claude Debussy