Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have… — Claude Debussy
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. — Jacques Derrida
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence,… — Alan Dershowitz
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit… — Beth Ditto
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a… — Beth Ditto
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. — Bob Dylan
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. — Wayne Dyer
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know… — Henry Van Dyke
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. — Mohamed El-Erian
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. — Roger Ebert
Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and… — Roger Ebert
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. — Albert Einstein
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and… — Andrew Eldritch
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a… — Rahm Emanuel
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. — Craig Ferguson
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for… — Larry Flynt
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our… — Shelby Foote
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. — Mark Haddon
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism… — Mohsin Hamid
I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must… — Mohsin Hamid
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot… — Laurell K. Hamilton
We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are… — Steve Harvey

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