Rules Quotes
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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
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According to government ethics rules ... it is permissible for a retired (Fed) governor to speak in public about the economy so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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It may have come into play, it may not have. But it's the principle. You never compromise those rules. It's very disappointing.
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To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.
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Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.
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It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
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In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
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There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.
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Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.
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When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rules, ... We could junk the rules.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
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There are some things that are under our control, and that is to ensure that we ourselves follow sound macroeconomic stability rules.
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The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.
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There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
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I have to understand the rules here in England.
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Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smil.
