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Quotes About Rules

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
~ Max Bill
The way forward is for governments to consciously pursue monetary and fiscal stability through setting clear objectives, establishing proper rules, and requiring openness and transparency - the new rules of the game.
~ Gordon Brown
When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of the consequences was the rewarding of skaters who attempt more challenging technical elements in the pursuit of ever more points.
~ Tara Lipinski
The Bible, with all its rules, is simply a book written by a person or people. It ought to carry a disclaimer, prominently displayed: 'The word of God, distorted and misrepresented by man.
~ Sophie Hannah
Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.
~ Sophie Hannah
Oh, that, certainly, but not only that," said Margaret. "Different people regard rules differently, no matter what those rules happen to be. Mutinous characters like me always resent constraints, even perfectly sensible ones, but there are some who welcome their existence and enforcement because it makes them feel safer. Protected.
~ Sophie Hannah
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
~ Sophocles
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.
~ Sparky Anderson
Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no longer reliable guides to work out modern gender roles and build a secure foundation for marriage. Wherever it is that people want to end up in their family relations today, even if they are totally committed to creating a so-called traditional marrige, they have to get there by a different route from the past.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.
~ Stephanie Tyler
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
~ Isaac Asimov
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
~ Alan W. Watts
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
~ Maimonides
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!
~ Roald Dahl
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
~ Lord Acton
There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.
~ Paul Lowe
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
~ Vince Lombardi
In order to have success it is necessary to know certain principles and rules
~ Sunday Adelaja
I suppose," she said to Paddington as they stepped on the escalator, "we ought really to carry you. It says you're supposed to carry dogs, but it doesn't say anything about bears.
~ Michael Bond
Freeman was a damn good prosecutor but in my view she didn't play fair. A trial was supposed to be a spirited contesting of facts and evidence. Both sides with equal footing in the law and the rules of the game. But using the rules to hide or withhold facts and evidence was the routine with Freeman. She liked a tiled game. She didn't carry the light. She didn't even see the light.
~ Michael Connelly
government, a bureaucracy, a business. When there are no rules then corruption sets in like rust.
~ Michael Connelly
We can only change our lives and create a world of our own if we first understand how such a world is constructed, how it works, and the rules of the game.
~ Michael E. Gerber
From now on, our security interests will dictate the length and scope of military operations, not arbitrary benchmarks and timetables set up by politicians. I have also totally changed the rules of engagement in our fight against the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
~ Michael Knight