Quotes About Rules

Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet.

If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship.

When we teach tactics in the opposite order, that is, the mechanics ahead of the thinking, too often we produce, instead of soldiers, structured mechanics who find it difficult to think without rules. The art of war has no traffic with rules. Yet I have often seen students reject their best tactical ideas because they could not fit them into the format.

Senseless or unnecessary rules should be done away with. As

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't. Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed.... Avoid commas, that are not necessary.... And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.... If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is...

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age.

In a democratic society there are rules -- written and un-written -- which must be followed if the free institutions of that society are to endure. They include the right to protest -- even against the freedoms which allow those protests. But they do not include the right to interfere with the rights of others without due process of law.

Men tend to be more orthodox in belief. Their concern for the rules keeps a congregation from drifting toward mushy moral relativism.

In building a work life, people who follow rules, written or unwritten, too closely and in an unimaginative way are often suffocated by those same rules and die by them, quite often unnoticed and very often unmourned.

Exactly. I'm almost done. Last pages." "I shouldn't interrupt, then." "Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader." "I thought rule number one is 'Don't tell the ending.' " "Wait. Rule number one: Hate the movie version." "Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core." "Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.

One must learn the rules so one can break them properly.

Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Most cases of child discipline may be solved by establishing structure that will lead to the reenforcement of the biblical principles established for the home. To do this, the rules of the home need to be set out clearly.

Davison has well stated this point when he rightly warns against the attempt to secure a spiritual end by the adoption of habits, the multiplication of rules, and the observance of external standards, excellent in themselves, but useful only as means subordinate to the Spirit. 1

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

After the love, I went back on the other side of my border. Back to the territory where I have my own rules, my own laws, my own code, and my own stupid obsessions. The territory where I lose my way, and where I lost the women who ventured onto