Quotes About Rules

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up. The world doesn't end, Bree said quietly. Amazing, but it really doesn't.

Vampires and five-year-olds played by the same rules, and both threw tantrums when they lost.

Demons are coming, Vivian. They're finding ways around the rules. The genetic checks and balances have been broken, and the demon genome is going to repair itself. We're going to become who we were. Maybe not this generation, maybe not the next, but when it happens, the witches can either be ready, or they can be pixies being eaten by giant birds.

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy's king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop's ear, and suddenly it's playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you're fucked.

They played chess and Frank won. John laughed. How stupid, he said. What do you mean? Games don't mean anything. Are you sure? Sometimes life seems like a kind of game to me. John shook his head. In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy's king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop's ear, and suddenly it's playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you're fucked.

it's obviously a kind of cover—a pretend principle that is really about keeping the rules that protect their property and privileges, and letting the rest go to hell.

A nadie le importan los libros, por eso puedes escribir lo que te dé la gana en ellos. A la gente le importan las normas.

Foul places began to gather in my inner being, black spores which spread more and more. And up in Heaven God Almighty sat and kept a watchful eye on me, and took heed that my destruction proceeded in accordance with all the rules of art, uniformly and gradually, without a break in the measure.

Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

it depends on whose reality you're using for rules. You just have to remember that, and then you can see that nothing should be taken absolutely seriously. Personally, I always like to use my own reality as a standard.

There were also rules, he said, that applied to how to treat captured enemies. "You can't use force just to interrogate.

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

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.