Quotes About Rules

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente esta dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle, é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

Well, perhaps this isolation was a Texas thing. Rules and traditions were different here than in the rest of the Mericas. They didn't call it the Lone Star region for nothing.

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente está dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

I try not to be religious. That sounds stuck-up. Like you just follow rules. I read somebody once who said religion is man's way to God. We make a list to follow that makes us good people in our own eyes, but we don't take into account what God wants.

All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in yourself. This myth is disseminated across the political spectrum. It is the essential message peddled by everyone from Oprah and the entertainment industry to the Christian Right and positive psychologists. But this promise, as the masses of underemployed and unemployed are discovering, is a fiction.16

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

There were red checkers and black checkers. The playing field was laid out in a strict grid, no tunnels or mountains or jungles. You knew where you stood. You knew the score. The pieces were out on the board, the enemy was visible, you could watch the tactics unfolding into larger strategies. There was a winner and a loser. There were rules.

Great teachers focus on expectations. Other teachers focus on rules. The least effective teachers focus on the consequences of breaking the rules.

To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the basis of courage and skill, on the basis of manhood itself, and it was this concept that marked the professional soldier as a romantic, a person who truly believed in the rules.

The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He'd have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.

Rules such as Write what you know, and Show, don't tell, while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

What's in Your Rule Book? What is a great evening to you? How did your parents resolve conflict? If you had an hour to do anything, what would you do? Name 3 things married people should never do. What would really disappoint you about someone you love?

By their very nature, firstborns hate to make mistakes. They are careful and calculating and sticklers for rules and regulations.

If thou must make a gold coin true Let thy mint these rules pursue. In the forge of continence Let the goldsmith be a man of patience, His tools be made of knowledge, His anvil made of reason;

What's right and what's permitted are sometimes different things.

in these situations, you followed the rules first. You toed the line. You made sure to cross every t and dot every i. And when that didn't work, it was time to bring out the goddamned gators.