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Quotes About Rules

I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
~ Margaret Atwood
Just remember this, when the scream at last has ended and you've turned on the lights: by the rules of the game, I must always lie.
~ Margaret Atwood
And the vampires. You used to know where you stood with them – smelly, evil, undead – but now there are virtuous vampires and disreputable vampires, and sexy vampires and glittery vampires, and none of the old rules about them are true any more. Once you could depend on garlic, and on the rising sun, and on crucifixes. You could get rid of the vampires once and for all. But not any more.
~ Margaret Atwood
You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
~ Margaret Atwood
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
~ Amory Lovins
You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.
~ Sally Henson, Summer's End
House rule number nine. No roach shall drink or eat out of the good cups in the kitchen. The plastic cups are in the pantry.
~ La Tisha Honor, Teen Roach
The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.
~ Sourav Ganguly
President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Size is nothing to the universe (unlimited abundance if that's what you wish) We make the rules on size and time.
~ Rhonda Byrne
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
~ Terry Pratchett
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
~ Harold Rosenberg
You gotta love a country where there are rules for being poor, and rich people make them.
~ Anna Quindlen
Democracy itself has always been loud and raucous, but when its rules are followed, it eventually creates consensus. The modern debate does not. Instead, it inspires in some people the desire to forcibly silence the rest.
~ Anne Applebaum
certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Where physical survival was relatively easy, one created rules to make social survival more difficult.
~ Anne Perry
Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?
~ Anne Perry
That you have one set of rules for yourselves, and another for us
~ Anne Perry
Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?
~ Anne Rice
You will obey the rules, won't you?" he asked suddenly. Mixture of menace and sarcasm. And maybe a little affection, too. "Of course!" Again I shrugged. "What are they, by the way? I've forgotten. Oh, we don't make any new vampires; we do not wander
~ Anne Rice
Never, ever, under any circumstances apply lipstick while at the table.
~ Anne Tyler
Inventing the rules of slavery, in 1662, Virginians decided to adopt the Roman rule partus sequitur ventrem, which says that you were what your mother was. 14
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
I'm sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Permission Marketing is just like dating. It turns strangers into friends and friends into lifetime customers. Many of the rules of dating apply, and so do many of the benefits.
~ Seth Godin