Rules Quotes

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Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden... — Marcus Garvey
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. — Dalai Lama
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills… — Charlotte Bronte
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you… — Frank Herbert
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts.… — Richard Bach
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be… — Frank Herbert
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he… — Francine Rivers
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… — Charles Bukowski
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. — Terry Pratchett
I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't… — Orson Scott Card
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when youâ€™re born is… — Douglas Adams
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. — William Wordsworth
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but… — E. Lockhart
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of… — Luigi Pirandello

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