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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac

Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live. — D.T. Suzuki

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it. — Warren Farrell

The rules of the game in Alabama politics is that no matter the provocation, no matter the justification, you take your whippings gracefully. — Bob Ingram

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. — Paul Eldridge

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. — Nicolas Roeg

The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of "rules. — Pearl Zhu

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs. — Rickie Fowler

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem. — Tony Abbott

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus

Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. — H.M. Forester

In the end of the day you make the rules. Base your Author Platform around the things you love to do, love to write about, and love to share. — Matthew Turner

This is our life. We get to decide the rules. We get to say what goes and what stays, what matters and what doesn't. — Sandhya Menon

I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean. — Donna Kauffman

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated. — Raymond Chandler

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman

The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results. — Bill Vaughan

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. — C. G. Jung

She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss. — Sabrina Jeffries

Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi. — Vann Chow

I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason. — Alastair Reynolds

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

Your social rules suck, if i wanted to start a conversation on the relevance of solar vs wind energy I will! — Tina J. Richardson

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. — Richard M. Nixon

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose. — Gary T. Smith

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. — Tim Ferriss

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy. — George Vecsey

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass. — Ronald Reagan

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno

Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified. — Steve Williams

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Jeffery Keedy

I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. — Neon Hitch

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States. — Richard Dreyfuss

One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet. — Jean Chatzky

It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.) — David Graeber

The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far. — Bernard Cornwell

Fairytales have rules. We may never understand them but they've been hammered into our heads since infancy. Eventually, even the rebels conform. — Angela Parkhurst

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot. — Bill Vaughan

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness. — Frank Capra

The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes evil win; not because good people are passive, but because evil play dirty while good play by the rules. — Jeanette Coron

When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost — David Mitchell

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. — Victor Hugo

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors. — Max McKeown

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. — David Hume

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — P. F. Strawson

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? — Robert J. Sawyer

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book! — Jeff Overton

Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone. — Baltasar Gracian

When you live in the jungle you have to live by its rules; the strong get to make it to tomorrow while the weak become food. — K'wan

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up. — Mike Lupica

People make the rules of society, not God. — V.C. Andrews

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler. — Richard P. Feynman

I don't make the rules, I just make it up. — L. Davyd Pollack

I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is. — Pete Wentz

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others. — Rush Limbaugh

But a nation which has people who can think, the nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, not instinct or habit. — F. Sionil Jose

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters. — Mick Jagger

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun. — Joss Whedon

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything. — Rebecca Coleman

Forget about the rules. Forget about all those details for tonight. I want you. I've wanted you since you fell into my office, and I know you want me. — E.L. James

At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations. — Leslie Hope

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. — Haley Reinhart

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I guess the rules aren't for everyone. — David Ortiz

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. — Philip Schaff

Rules are for the stupid, the clueless, those who cannot be trusted to do the right thing. — Jared Dillian

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way. — Moses Malone

Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. — Diane Johnson

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. — Rupert Brooke

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Control healthcare and you control the people — Saul Alinsky

Alexandra took a very different lesson away from class that day: You can break the rules, if you're good enough. — Inverarity

Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance. — Sigmund Freud

Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women. — Haruki Murakami

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. — Albert Camus

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other. — Kenneth Stafford Norris

I'm not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules. — Bethany Mota

Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation — Mikhail Lomonosov

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! — Jean Racine

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. — Brion James

Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily. — Jean Webster

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

Children are becoming disobedient ... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations. — Cesar Millan

I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown? — Jesse Ball

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue. — Deacon Jones

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Racine

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules. — Bobby Bowden

Not even an advancing All Blacks haka could have dragged him away from the swing of her ass — Amy Andrews

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. — R.D. Laing

People make babies. People make the rules. And then people make up gods so they have someone else to blame when things don't go right." "No, — R. Lee Smith

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. — David Shuster

Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. — Richard Rohr

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. — Terence

Two very simple rules:
A. You don't have to write.
B. You can't do anything else
The rest comes of itself. — Raymond Chandler