Rules Quotes

Error of omission begets new rules.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

The rules are simple!

If you follow the rules, it's your own fault.

But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

Rules will break you as often as you break them. But I guess that’s okay.Maybe I’m done with rules.For now, anyway.I think I will just be. I will exist. And see what happens.

That’s the problem with following all the rules—somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Your way, your rules. Their way - their rules.

Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.

I have two rules:First, I'm never wrong.Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."L Lawliet

I hate when I break my own rules. What’s the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us.

The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

Going in the known is like knowing the rules, once you know it... better you will do it.

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

You can’t cheat if there are no rules

FREEDOM IS WHERE I AM NOT A PRISONER CARRYING A BAGGAGE OF OTHERS RULES.

Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

most people don't understand what process can do or can't do, chattr it's one of many way to show whoever you're root. Boss still boss and God still God.

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.

You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

In the world of mulesThere are no rules.

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution. NetworkEtiquette.net

Success has NO Rules except ONE..It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!

On the battlefield there are no rules.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.

[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement."[Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then is it?

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.

There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

No exceptions to exceptions!

Some are meant to make rules, some are meant to break them. Others just follow.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody