Anthony Trollope Quotes

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Teacher

• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Democracy
  • Rules
  • Key

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rules

• There are no rules when it comes to love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rules

• Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Enough
  • Rules
  • Often

• I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Gaming

• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Rules
  • Rule
  • Only

• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Rules

• I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Long
  • Marriage

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Company
  • Rules

• I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Children

• When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?

  

  Carly Craig
  • Relationship
  • Day
  • Rules

• There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Need
  • Rules

• Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Elephant

• You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Friends
  • House
  • Marriage

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Problem

• Therefore, it is vital for churches to provide a clear target explaining the attitudes and behaviors of a disciple; you must have a clear definition of disciple.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Provide
  • Churches
  • Disciple

• Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Rules
  • Giant
  • Little Man