Rules Quotes

3000 Rules quotes by 2172 unique authors

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The universe does not work by our rules — Frank Herbert
When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the… — Libba Bray
Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it… — Cynthia Lord
There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted. — Simone Elkeles
True love rules especially through memory. — Honore de Balzac
Rules of taste enforce structures of power. — Susan Sontag
Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who… — Dean Koontz
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more. — Haruki Murakami
With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters. — Paulo Coelho
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. — Melina Marchetta
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or… — Muriel Barbery
Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little… — George R. R. Martin
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be… — Christopher Hitchens
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy,… — Suzanne Collins
Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do. — Patricia C. Wrede
Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at… — Holly Black
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien
The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed… — Terry Pratchett
You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What… — Richard Branson
I followed my heart without breaking any rules. — Confucius
Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.… — Howard Tayler
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power… — Brandon Sanderson
Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules. — Margaret Atwood

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