Quotes About Rules

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

I gaped at what I saw next. She yanked his arm off and ate it. Gross! I knew she was hungry, but that was just...well, against the school rules for one thing.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.