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Quotes About Rules

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.
~ Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
Insurances are like very expensive flat rates, except that you have to live by their rules in hope to get back a small share of your money.
~ L.H.
Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.
~ Ali Land, Good Me, Bad Me
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
~ Holly Lisle
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
~ Claude Debussy
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
~ Nadia Boulanger
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
~ Jean-Philippe Rameau
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
~ Carlo Grante
Secular music was not allowed in our household.
~ Paul Brandt
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
~ William Howard Taft
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
~ Thomas Huxley
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
~ William Penn
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.
~ T. B. Joshua
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
~ Thomas Huxley
Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.
~ Kimon Nicolaides
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
~ Dan Brown
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.
~ Fred Singer
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
~ Xunzi
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
~ Ivan Doig
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
~ Francis Bacon
There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.
~ Toby Keith
Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.
~ Kirk Chisholm
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
~ Richard Linklater