Quotes with rules

  • It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
  • One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
  • 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?
  • Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
  • The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
  • 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
  • All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
  • The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
  • What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
  • As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
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  • Confucius Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Appearance rules the world.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Karl Marx All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bobby Vinton As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Harry Mathews Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules for how to perform collective behaviors? It had to be the bacteria.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Frank Dane A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Ben Schnetzer All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bob Dylan Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benny Blanco Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bob Dylan An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
    It's only people's games that you got to dodge
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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