Quotes About Rules

When I strip away my dreams, what i imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't aid, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I've made for myself that I don't follow--I see that I've done as little as anyone else in this world to deserve the grand moniker I.

Abigail had keeled over at the judge's signal. Pip, her Border Collie, had come flying when Abigail called, then dropped to the grass twenty feet out on her "Down!" command. According to the American Kennel Club rules, Abigail should have called him again when the judge gave the signal. I'm no expert on the finer points of scoring, but I was pretty sure that falling flat on her face was a serious handling error.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

According to a study quoted in the New York Times, the parents of ordinarily creative children had an average of 6 rules, while the parents of highly creative children only had one.[32] Fewer rules, telling your kids what to do and how to do it produces more creative kids. But they are probably harder to manage!

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

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The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

Dead men don't pay for baths, haircuts, meals, or beds. Dead men don't buy new clothes, or ammunition, or saddles. Dead men don't desire fancy Coffeyville boots with Texas stars laid into the shank. They don't gamble, and they don't spend money on liquor or whores. And that was why, when the Texans got to Dodge, there was really only one rule to remember. Don't kill the customers. All other ordinances were, customarily, negotiable.

Ninjas didn't fight like the samurai. They didn't have a set of rules to follow.

P9 Remember the three rules of the wand said Kathleen. Sure, said Annie. You can only use it for the good of others. You can only use it after you've tried your hardest. And you can only use it with a command of five words.

Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth.

Se fixer des règles, c'est un moyen comme un autre de s'entrainer

Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above.

He considered rolling over and simply ignoring his son. There should be a rule in parenting that you get to do that once every fiscal year. If you skip a year, it carries over— like airline miles or paid time off.

Market is not the opposite of regulation or government any more than swim meet is the opposite of swimming pool. Every market needs its rules, these rules necessarily come from outside the market itself, and they aren't always written down.

All right. Normal rules apply. Right. The man walked off, leaving us. What are the normal rules? I asked. He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

es imposible que la gente viva sin quebrantar alguna ley.

You know the rules, he said. Unaccompanied women cannot sit in this section.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.