Rules Quotes
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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
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Like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.
Bob Gill
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The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.
Christmas Humphreys
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Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
Eugene Kennedy
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
Michael Scott
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We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.
Dan Gutman
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One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.
George Vecsey
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Fashion is really funny because it's something that should be subjective, but there are clear things that are chic or not chic. There are all these rules, but if the right person breaks a rule, then it becomes a trend.
Erin Foster
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Driver had his own rules of war, and he tried to teach them to me. You know, when you clean a weapon the first rule is always clear the chamber. Not Driver. His first rule was always check to make sure it’s your weapon, so you don’t end up cleaning somebody else’s weapon.
Hal Moore
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'
Confucius
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Bill Press
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You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.
Rickie Lee Jones
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I have no complaints at all, ... We knew exactly what we had to do. We had an opportunity to do it. We just fell a little bit short. We knew what the rules were.
Bobby Petrino
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Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
Seth Godin
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
Stu Jackson
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We drive, and I'm thinking about users and abusers, like my mom says. The time my dad swung me around by my feet and I got hurt, and how he told me to man up. Who came up with that? Who came up with all those rules and ideas about how a guy's gotta be?
Bill Konigsberg
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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
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But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.
Binnie Kirshenbaum