Quotes About Rules

Sólo se trataba de cumplir las reglas —dice mientras cierra el armario—. La vida te sitúa ante ellas. Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

In essence, games are the only universally serious activity. They leave no room for skepticism, wouldn't you agree? However incredulous or doubting you might be, if you want to play, you have no choice but to follow the rules. Only the person who respects the rules, or at least knows and applies them, can win. Reading a book is the same: you have to accept the plot and the characters to enjoy the story.

Después resulta fácil continuar, porque si en la realidad hay muchas cosas que suceden por azar, en la ficción casi todo discurre según reglas lógicas.

Hay cosas que ocurren solas, concluye. Tal vez porque alguna regla oculta determina que deben ocurrir. Y tres veces son demasiadas para considerarse al margen.

Las guerras civiles son otra cosa, oye. El salvajismo llevado al extremo. La ausencia de reglas.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.

It even contains rules on what types of blows are permissible when a husband beats his wife.

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

In ancient customary societies the influence of manner, which is a primary influence, has been settled into rules, so that it may aid established usages and not thwart them—that it may, above all, augment the HABIT of going by custom, and not break and weaken it. Every aid, as we have seen, was wanted to impose the yoke of custom upon such societies; and impressing the power of manner to serve them was one of the greatest aids.

We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

Joy is important in life, not just football. Joy is being serious and professional, too. Joy can be reaching your potential by training hard and being disciplined. Joy can be following the rules you need to follow.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

Our ethos for 'Now You See Me 2' was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done in real life, and I'd say over 90% of it was actually done in-camera with no CGI. Of course, movies like this are always going to be bound by the rules of Hollywood, being there's going to be enhancements of CGI.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is - the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way - there are no real rules.