Rules Quotes

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.

A strong spirit transcends rules.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Existence precedes and rules essence.