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Quotes About Rules

The laws of this world are for children.
~ Frank Wedekind
I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.
~ Bob Corker
Parents must lay down ground rules for their children to help them to grow up and to learn responsibility for their actions. They must learn to stand on their own two feet.
~ Charlotte Rae
I came to realize that the law is about a book of rules, and he who learns them best, and is the most creative in interpreting them, goes furthest.
~ Kenneth Cole
The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.
~ David Shields
As a lawyer I did various IPOs and I know the power of our listing rules and the respect that has around the world.
~ Nicky Morgan
What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.
~ Diane Chamberlain
When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or form other people like siblings, teachers, and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths.
~ Donald A. Norman
He is, professionally, an arbiter of comedy. "A sort of drama critic?" "More what you would term an umpire. The members of the audience are given a set of rules and the rules constitute the comedy.
~ Donald Barthelme
If I don't sound like a typical Washington politician, it's because I'm NOT a politician. If I don't always play by the rules of the Washington Establishment, it's because I was elected to fight for YOU, harder than anyone ever has before.
~ Donald J. Trump
I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.
~ Donald Miller
When a Judge personality is religious, they'll use the Bible to gain control of others. The Bible becomes a book of rules they use to prove they are right rather than a book that introduces people to God.
~ Donald Miller
God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.
~ Donald Miller
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling 's Rules. We had all been using Pauling 's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.
~ Unknown
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. Triumph could not be partial. It was complete
~ Jack Weatherford
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
~ Jackson Browne
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams
~ Jacques Barzun
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
~ Jacques Chirac
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.
~ Jacques Derrida
Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.
~ Jacques Ellul
Let this covid vaccine be very first administered to highly rich people e.g top politicians, ministers, business tycoons etc as they are openly flouting the rules like not wearing masks in gatherings,rally and never maintaining social distancing
~ Unknown