Rules Quotes

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How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations… — Soren Kierkegaard
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood… — Jodi Picoult
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and… — Arundhati Roy
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught… — T.H. White
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person?… — John Green
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His… — Terry Pratchett
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at… — Steven Pinker
But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the… — Jodi Picoult
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. — Caroline Stevermer
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho
War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else.… — Steven Erikson
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into… — Neal Shusterman
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's… — Neal Shusterman
Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them — Chetan Bhagat
The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time… — Elena Ferrante
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his… — Flannery O'Connor
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).… — Edith Wharton
I believe that Godâ€”if he exists at allâ€”is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders… — Banksy

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