Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. — Elizabeth Blackwell
The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. — Jackson Browne
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing. — Nicolas Roeg
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of… — Xunzi
We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't… — Moon Unit Zappa
The one who rules like the mother lasts long. — Laozi
As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough. — Laozi
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated. — Raymond Chandler
[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules. — Gary Kovacs
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense — David Thorne
A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility… — Michel de Certeau
The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with… — Harry Seidler
Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments. — Timothy Radcliffe
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught… — Abraham Pais
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them… — Lee Kuan Yew
It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a… — Lee Kuan Yew
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or… — Josef Albers
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate. — Josef Albers
You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s… — Philip Treacy
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann
The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and… — Andrea Zittel
We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church. — Vaughn J Featherstone
I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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