Quotes About Rules

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.

Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

We begged you, Lord, to divide right from wrong and instead you divided the waters above the firmament from those beneath it. We begged for the knowledge of good and evil, and you gave us all kinds of rules and regulations like the rules of soccer

Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.

Él sabía que las dos conviven tranquilamente en este mundo, pero lo primero que ha de hacer el arte es violar las reglas de la realidad. Y ha de ser así a fin de que pueda existir por si mismo

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality.

These are sets of rules that, despite existing only in our imagination, we believe to be as real and inviolable as gravity. 'If

Any individual entity that presumes to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves." -Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004

It was not that easy to convey to him, a man much older than she was, that the world was her world, too. He had taken a risk when he invited her to join him at his table. After all, she came with a whole life and libido of her own. It had not occurred to him that she might not consider herself to be the minor character and him the major character. In this sense, she had unsettled a boundary, collapsed a social hierarchy, broken with the usual rules.

I had broken the rules of exchange. She had given and I had taken, but I had not reciprocated. A gift like love is never free.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.