Rules Quotes

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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and youâ€™re really buying into someone elseâ€™s system of values, rules, and rewards. — Bill Watterson
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion… — Henry David Thoreau
When passion rules, she never rules wisely. — Benjamin Franklin
Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like… — Kenny Smith
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules. — Pleasant Rowland
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow… — James Hillman
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you… — Richard Schmid
There's no rules. Show me the rule book. — Liam Gallagher
I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form… — W G Sebald
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but… — Annabelle Selldorf
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of… — Toby Young
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than… — Elmore Leonard
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so… — Marcus Aurelius
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules. — Jubal
Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do. — Steve Buscemi
TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And… — Marc Andreessen
I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear… — Gwen Stefani
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a… — David J

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