Rules Quotes

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.