Quotes About Rules

In our world, Darija said, throwing aside the chapter she was marking up, there will be no semicolons.

Given anything negative or uncertain, there were rules that had to be followed.

When I make mistakes I get punished,' insisted Bruno, irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones ho enforced them).

You are most welcome,' replied Hitler. 'But remember, the boy who wears this uniform must obey our rules and seek nothing more from life than the advancement of our party and our country. That is why we are here, all of us. To make Germany great again.

When we are not allowed to grieve, the energy is frozen. One of the rules of dysfunctional families is the no feel rule. This rule prohibited your inner child from even knowing what he was feeling. Another dysfunctional family rule is the no talk rule, which states that the expression of emotions is prohibited.

We have no alternative. We must break the sacred rule and question these rules because unless we talk about them, there is no way out. We must evaluate them in the light of our newfound knowledge of families as systems.

One of the great advances of our generation has been the exposure of child abuse. We have come to see that our prevailing rules for raising children shame and violate their uniqueness and their dignity. Such rules have been a part of our emotional endarkenment. Alice Miller has shown with painful clarity how our current parenting rules have aimed at making the child fit the projected image of the parent. They have also enforced the idealization of parents by the wounded child.

What the mediocrity principle tells us is that our state is not the product of intent, that the universe lacks both malice and benevolence, but that everything does follow rules—and that grasping those rules should be the goal of science.

I put it to you that no rule consciously invented by mankind since we acquired speech has force equivalent to those inherited from perhaps fifty, perhaps a hundred thousand generations of evolution in the wild state. I further suggest that the chief reason why modern society is in turmoil is that for too long we claimed that our special human talents could exempt us from the heritage written in our genes.

The most important of these rules is the first one: the eternal law of reversion to the mean (RTM) in the financial markets.

If you obey all the rules… you will miss all the fun.

Being with you breaks all the rules, but being without you breaks my heart.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

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.

You can't play Games with a girl who made the rules.

When you're late to school by 30 seconds and get marked tardy...I got caught in red lights ok give me a break.

Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

There is NO way you're living out your purpose if you're conforming to the rules. There is NO way you'll fulfill your destiny if you're trapped in the dogma of what other people think.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.