Rules Quotes
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Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.
Bernard Haisch
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
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And why was it that some guys had tears in them and some had no tears at all? Different boys lived by different rules.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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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
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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
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There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.
Elizabeth Scott
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Evan Esar
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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
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There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
Terrence McNally
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
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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
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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
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The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.
George Stephanopoulos
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There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
Eric Garcetti
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Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
Paul Parker
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Three rules of good negotiation: 1. Know what the other party wants. 2. Listen carefully. 3. Don't let your emotions get in the way of a good deal.
Betty Liu
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Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
Alexandra Robbins
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Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
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I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.
Elizabeth Wein
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules.
Steve Huffman
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
George Shearing
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Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien