Rules Quotes

• 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
  • War
  • Rules
  • Driver

• The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Love
  • Church
  • Philosophy

• Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Style
  • Praise
  • Created

• Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Dangerous

• I had my hair down for a long time. I shaved my head, you know, a couple of years ago. And, then, I started to wear my hair short, and I thought that was cool. But, at the same time, I never want to put rules down on me and say, 'OK, I do this for this and this for that.' I just don't like rules. I don't.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Hair
  • Rules
  • Long Time

• Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Satisfying

• Around four o’clock, when our bosses were having tea, the forewoman bumped me with her bony hip. This was a sign that she would take over for fifteen minutes while I went on a break. Every day she gave one of us a break like that. There was no more “reason” for her kindness than for the cruelty of the camp commander who had slapped Trude. It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Opportunity
  • Reason
  • Kindness

• The rules that the United States introduce will be obviously be rules for the United States, but I'm very clear about the opportunities I expect everyone in the UK to have. I will be representing the interests of everyone in the UK on a whole range of things we will talk about.

  

  Theresa May
  • Opportunities
  • Interests
  • Introduce

• I think we're going to see a lot of candidates. I actually think they will sort themselves out starting this weekend when the rules of the game are put into play.

  

  Anne McLellan
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Candidates

• I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Creativity
  • Rules
  • Surprises

• Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Health
  • Gay
  • United States

• I hate to think they're going to change the rules this far into the season that might affect us

  

  Chad Knaus
  • Change
  • Season
  • Affect

• Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Judge
  • Morality
  • Measure

• One of my rules is, if Jesus or Taylor Swift calls, I take the call.

  

  Scott Borchetta
  • Rules
  • Call

• Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules.

  

  Paul Nehlen
  • Rules
  • Islam
  • Political System

• If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.

  

  Dan Gutman
  • Break
  • Going
  • Correctly

• The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

  

  Michael Korda
  • Playing
  • Succeed
  • Fastest

• It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Play
  • Rules
  • Boundaries

• There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Rules
  • Happen
  • Consequences

• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Vote
  • Senators
  • Filibuster

• When I first got into graffiti I thought it was going to change the world. But when, 20-years-later, it still hadn't, I got bored of the self-imposed rules.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Graffiti

• It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."

  

  Ari Marmell
  • Rules
  • Run
  • Thievery

• Look at all the women in my stories. They’re very independent; they create their own universes; they are very unorthodox. They aren’t held down by rules and regulations.

  

  Estela Portillo Trambley
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Regulations

• If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

  

  Eric Temple Bell
  • Universe
  • Number
  • Throne

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