Rules Quotes

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

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 courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.