Rules Quotes
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
Confucius -
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
Barack Obama, Sr.
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Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
Confucius -
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.
Aaron Zigman -
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
Sallust -
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn -
NATO stands ready to act and rules out no option.
Javier Solana
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Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
Uzodinma Iweala -
Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
Wladimir Klitschko -
The whims of youth break all the rules.
Homer -
The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.
Ellen Langer -
There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
Andrew Fastow -
In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
Bernard Madoff
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Being vegan is not about rules or doctrine. It’s not about restriction or self-denial.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau -
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
Agathon -
My parents broke many rules, so I guess thinking 'outside the box' has been slowly but surely developing in my family - one generation to the next.
Rekha Sharma -
Rigid pan-European working limits on hours will not deliver health and safety for our work force, particularly where the rules are unevenly applied.
Jack Straw -
Life is good, life is great. Always love and never hate. Break the rules, stand apart. Ignore your head and follow your heart.
Ashley Purdy -
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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YES. I'm slow. This rules.
Crosby Loggins -
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
Albert Einstein -
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso -
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.
Elliott Colla