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Quotes About Rules

Upholders may struggle in situations where expectations aren't clear or the rules aren't established. They may feel compelled to meet expectations, even ones that seem pointless. They may feel uneasy when they know they're breaking the rules, even unnecessary rules, unless they work out a powerful justification to do so.
~ Gretchen Rubin
She eagerly meets society's rules and laws until they conflict with her own inner sense of justice—at which point she rejects them.
~ Gretchen Rubin
The head-master made a
~ Gustave Flaubert
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
~ H. L. Mencken
I have a rule about no material being sacred.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, normal knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptibility to catch words and stock phrases, combined with his incapacity for ordinary speech, made him, of course, an ideal subject for language rules.
~ Hannah Arendt
the general contempt for even the most obvious rules of common sense.
~ Hannah Arendt
They are designed to translate the propaganda lies of the movement, woven around a central fiction—the conspiracy of the Jews, or the Trotskyites, or 300 families, etc.—into a functioning reality, to build up, even under nontotalitarian circumstances, a society whose members act and react according to the rules of a fictitious world.
~ Hannah Arendt
Rules are made to be broken, principles are not. The best fighter pilot can change the rules of engagement, but he dare not violate the principles of gravity!
~ Hans Finzel
You're the most trustworthy cop I know," Wilde said, "and look at how you bent the rules when it came to finding a cop killer.
~ Harlan Coben
In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.
~ Howard Staunton
Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
~ Wladimir Klitschko
I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
~ Eden Hazard
I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.
~ Travis Fimmel
Everything we do needs to be geared toward making the sport more accessible to the fans - the rules of the sport, how the race plays itself out, how people qualify into the races - everything needs to be as easy to understand as possible.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
~ Josef Albers
My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.
~ Apparat
When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.
~ John Barrasso
Dare to Explore. Dare to Dream. Dare to Discover. Dare to break the rules. Dear to Leave. Dare to Begin. Dare to Live. Dear to Love. Dare to be You.
~ Oksana Rus
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
~ Rufus Wainwright
I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
~ Charles Bukowski