Rules Quotes

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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and… — Wallace Stegner
I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules. — Ella Baker
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didnâ€™t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and… — Oscar Niemeyer
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. — Joe Abercrombie
If you develop rules, never have more than ten. — Donald Rumsfeld
The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know… — Franz Alexander
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle… — Alfred Adler
You are a victim of the rules you live by. — Jenny Holzer
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense… — George Eliot
We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of… — Beyonce Knowles
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… — Paul Hawken
Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and… — Nick Clooney
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second… — Jan Morris
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my… — Don King
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can… — Marvin Olasky
Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if… — Boethius
What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. — Pete Rose
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human… — Paul Nitze
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark?… — Edward Abbey
Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink… — Ray Bradbury

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