logo

Quotes About Rules

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.
~ Unknown
Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.
~ Unknown
Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.' More titters and cheers.
~ Unknown
Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.
~ David Levithan, Wide Awake
Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.
~ Cynthia Lord
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
~ Emily Post
If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
~ Renzo Piano
The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.
~ Martin Seligman
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~ Norman O. Brown
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
~ Anna Quindlen
Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.
~ Unknown
I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can't anywhere else.
~ Jon Foreman
True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
~ Judith Martin
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
~ Steven Pinker
There ought to be a law about you coming around.
~ Bob Dylan
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.
~ Tim Sandlin
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
~ David Letterman
Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.
~ Unknown
People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.
~ Unknown
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
~ David Hilbert