Rules Quotes
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One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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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.
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Necessity knows no rules.
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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.
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Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
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The best records are not perfect. They don't sound digital or like someone applied rules.
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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.
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Enlightenment is the Goal – Love is the Game – Taking steps are the rules!
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There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.
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Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.
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But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
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We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.
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I do not make the rules. This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them.
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I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.
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I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.
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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.
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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.
