Rules Quotes

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So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules?… — Dave Matthews
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and… — James Madison
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of… — James Madison
[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… — George Washington
There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of… — George Washington
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,… — James Madison
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. — William Hazlitt
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb… — Trent Reznor
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying' — Daisy Waugh
Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey.… — William J. Clinton
There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts. — Warren Miller
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.… — John Jay Chapman
I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of… — Andy Wilkinson

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