Quotes About Rules

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

In the game of life, we dont know all the rules but still we are playing where God is umpiring.

Life is kind and generous to those who respect its principles and rules, but it is hard and cruel with those who demonstrate no respect for what is required for a good life.

Life's a game, but it's not fair, I break the rules because I don't care, so I keep doing my own thing, walking tall against the rain...

Life has 3 rules, paradox, humor, and change.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...

Everyone plays the game of life, but not everyone follows the rules.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

There is no rules on how to live life. There is only laws you must obey by. You live life, learn from your mistakes and move on. Never forgetting what has been done but always remembering what is done.

Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.

It was the time when well-bred people observed the rule of affability and what was called the rule of the three adjectives.

The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one.

the rules of engagement are a clear and present danger, frightening young soldiers, who have been placed in harm's way by their government, into believing they may be charged with murder if they defend themselves too vigorously.

They're not their rules. They're our rules, the rules of the Western countries, the civilized side of the world. And every terrorist knows how to manipulate them in their own favor.

It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where gardens, parenthood and the future were planned with equal care, and even if everything went wrong the master plan remained in effect–keep up appearances, clip the hedges, mow the lawn, so that no one will suspect that there's a third mortgage and that Mother's headaches are caused by martinis not migraine.

Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish. It is one of the chief roles of etiquette to keep the lid on the violence which the meal being eaten presupposes.

Lucy's Rules for Living 1. Life is strange and messy and you are strange and messy. Strange and messy is beautiful. 2. We all stand on a precipice. Choose. 3. You'll always find your way home. 4. There are no rules. And if you think there are any, break them.

Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.