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Quotes About Rules

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
~ Charlize Theron
I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.
~ Arnold Palmer
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.
~ Philippe Petit
A lot of people ask why I don't fly for the airlines now. It's because of the rebel in me that doesn't like rules.
~ MJ Hegar
I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
~ Sam Hunt
I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
~ Leighton Meester
Unfortunately, rim protection is really difficult these days with the rules that there are if a guy is getting downhill. It's very hard even if the center is back to handle that. You have to cut off penetration at the start with a strong perimeter and then get the rebound and get out and go.
~ Daryl Morey
Since I've been a part of this league, I can't recall when they've actually made rules that have actually helped to improve the game of basketball.
~ B. J. Armstrong
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
~ Louis MacNeice
'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.
~ Gloria Steinem
I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
~ Emeril Lagasse
The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.
~ Dan Pena
The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.
~ James Mercer
Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.
~ Michael Isikoff
Without the red line, I think it's going to be a lot more exciting game, and I think you're going to get more scoring chances.
~ Joe Thornton
Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts that most members don't ever want to know because it's a lot of work. But that's what really makes you successful.
~ Jimmy Gomez
We need to first clearly establish what our modern rules for behavior are and make sure those are clearly understood and communicated. That empowers both the people who experience harassment on any level, but also the people who are the perpetrators of harassment to absolutely understand what behavior is crossing the line.
~ Sara Gideon
If you put our guys in harm's way, you better support them with the right equipment, the right rules of engagement, the right Medevac, the right quick-reaction force.
~ Ryan Zinke
We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
~ Andre Rieu
When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.
~ Shailene Woodley
Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.
~ Monica Johnson
Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.
~ Michael O'Rielly
The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
~ Chrystia Freeland