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Quotes About Rules

Fools follow lockdown rules, wear masks, take covid jab, force others to be like them, fear virus which does not exist and spread fake things heard from the media news
~ Proverb World
Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence.
~ Pt Barnum
Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Note in particular that a noun denoting a group of people takes which, not who. You cannot write *the battalion who had captured the fortress because a battalion, though composed of people, is not itself a person: write the battalion which had captured the fortress.
~ R.L. Trask
The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'.
~ Rachel Cusk
I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament's undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.
~ Claire Fox
No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a big risk.
~ Shelley Moore Capito
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.
~ Al Sharpton
If the NFL can keep getting away with forcing players to wait three years out of high school before they're drafted - three! - the NCAA should be made to do away with its rules against paying players beyond room, board and tuition. I'm not talking about some token, $2,000-a-year 'spending money' stipend for every player.
~ Skip Bayless
Sometimes I regret waiting so long to have a child, but I don't make the rules. The universe decided it was going to take me a while to get to be a mom!
~ Constance Marie
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.
~ Ron Wyden
There are no rules out in the street. And if you're a nice guy, you'll wake up in a hospital.
~ Matt Serra
When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.
~ Amy Klobuchar
I didn't do anything with the thought that I want to go against society or bend any rules.
~ Neena Gupta
I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win that money back.
~ Kyle Lafferty
Our country was built upon the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you can achieve the 'American dream' and create a better future for your children.
~ Jaime Harrison
I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.
~ Jamie Hince
I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.
~ Steve Scalise
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.
~ Simon Cowell
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
~ Laurie Simmons
The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.
~ Jay Williams
Boundaries? What are those?
~ Gilbert Arenas
I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.
~ Sangeetha Krish
See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.
~ Herbie Hancock