Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules… — George Herbert
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right. — Kenneth Lay
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases… — George Polya
One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people –… — Jim Rogers
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book… — Fannie Hurst
There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or… — Wilhelm Reich
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we… — James Turrell
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our… — Robert Menzies
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants… — Jacque Fresco
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests… — Leonid Brezhnev
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography… — Edmund White
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family… — Murray Kempton
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should… — Philip Yancey
Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3)… — Charlie Munger
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute… — Hyman Rickover
Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up! — Eddie Izzard
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper… — Melissa Bean
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew… — Ben Bova
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. — John Avlon
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is… — Calvin Harris
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. — Rudy Rucker
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. — Robert McKee
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood… — Darren Hayes

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