Rules Quotes

“What are the rules?
Stick together!
Run if we have to.
Na dallying!
No drilling.
And above all else, be brave!”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“We live by the rules or we die by them!”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“If their rules made sense
and sense ruled—
If their laws weren’t so brok- en
I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“I'm gonna be really real with you. People are a fucking mess. We love to complicate simple shit, and simplify complicated shit. Sometimes, we get so caught up in trying to follow the rules that we forget to question whether or not the rules make sense. What works for Miles and Shante won't necessarily work for you, just like what works for Mom and Dad doesn't work for me. Remember what I said about being honest.”
― James Ramos, Daniel, Deconstructed

“I do know what came over me. It's exactly what always comes over me when someone breaks rules, no matter how totally arbitrary they seem to be. Something in my brain snaps, and I detonate like a hand grenade. Which is incredibly hypocritical, given how happy I am to ignore rules if I don't personally agree with them.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“I do not want you to have me softly. You don't have to ask me to confirm if I say harder and faster. If I can still offer intelligible speech after you go harder and faster, you are not yet hard or fast enough. Test how much I can take. I'm confident it is more than you think, but please surprise me. You should call me whatever names you like. Your social conscience requests you refer to me as a 'liberated woman' or a 'sex worker' when your cock means 'slut' and 'whore.' Call me those. It won't offend me coming from your mouth. You should cum in me. I'm on birth control now, and that's what my kitty is for. You can cum elsewhere if you must, as long as doing this will be hotter for you. Don't cum somewhere out of courtesy—though not in my hair, please. I promise you that it is a trial to clean out fully.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
The sharper men's weapons,
The more trouble in the land.
The more ingenious and clever men are,
The more strange things happen.
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Human beings exchanged their freedom for the sense of security that comes from living by set rules and routines—despite knowing that they pay the cost of these rules and regulations with their freedom.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“If no one remembers becomes the equivalent of If there is no God. If there is no God, Dostoyevsky said, then everything is permitted.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply.”
― Sylvia Engdahl, Enchantress from the Stars

“In terms of pure and humble objective morality, a right just feels right to have; however a privilege is, in a way, sort of in the way, and almost feels wrong to have (by principle that if you abuse it, you lose it).”
― Criss Jami

“It's not breaking the rules What I find makes fun. It is However outsmarting the system and finding a way around it that brings me joy and satisfaction”
― Günther Schepp Larenas

“My story is a perfect example of how, early in our lives, we follow the rules set down by those who come before us—often without questioning why these rules are in place. However, when
we observe our circumstances, we may find that the rules keep the current ruler in power—not for the good of the whole, but for the
good of the one or the few.”
― Kathy Sparrow, Ignite Your Leadership: Proven Tools for Leaders to Energize Teams, Fuel Momentum and Accelerate Results

“Jesus didn't die on the cross so we could follow rules; He died on the cross so we could follow Him.”
― Joshua Jericho, He Loved Me Enough: A Story of Salvation, Healing, Deliverance, & Redemption

“Rules are social conventions that generalize what would be good to do in situations of a certain kind. Although these rules are a convenient standard against which to judge the quality of our actions, the variety and uniqueness of moral situations require a fine-tuned sense of perception and judgment to determine when and how the rules apply to particular circumstances.”
― Dale S. Wright, Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra

“When the rules are designed to break you, you have to break the rules”
― Jessica Khoury, Sparrow Rising

“Life is tough, but it's tougher if you are stupid and you don't cling to God for guidance.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Roberto is like a small child sometimes, especially a cheeky and mischievous one, and yet she adores his strength, his wisdom, and in that gentle soul of his; lives a giant fearless bear. He is not easily impressed, he lives by his own rules in life and this suits him perfectly as well as complimenting his relationship with Maria”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“Why do you always follow rules and regulations? We will bend a few rules and ignore a few more and hopefully, we will end up with a few trout,” said Roberto like he knew all the tricks and the mysteries of the mountains and how to survive there.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“Art is not bound by rules or expectations.
It is the wild dance..
of imagination,
of weaving dreams,
of challenging perceptions.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“As soon as you have learned the rules, the game changes.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“Early in my career, observation of those around showed that there was a distinct set of behaviours that got people promoted.
If there were two people of equal ability, for example, and one dressed, thought and behaved as if they had already been promoted, they would be the one who got the next available job at that next level.”
― Richard Templar, The Rules of Life: A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life

“Observing life in general, people very broadly seem to fall into two main camps: those who seem to have mastered the knack of successful living and those who still find it all a bit of a struggle.
And when I say successfully mastered it, I don't mean by amassing wealth or being at the top in some stressful career.
People who are healthy and getting more out of life. Those who are still struggling tend to be not so happy on the whole, and the enjoyment of life just isn't what it should be.”
― Richard Templar, The Rules of Life: A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life

“Kalen (admin): What were you doing when the string appeared?

Theodore: Platonic bonding.

Mikel (admin): Isobel?

The messages stopped there, and she swallowed, typing out a hesitant reply.
Isobel: I’m not sure how much detail I’m supposed to go into.

Kalen (admin): Jesus Christ. Did any of you follow the goddamned rules?

Isobel: What rules?

Oscar: Not a chance.

Moses: No.

Kilian: Yes.”
― Jane Washington, Sauter

“The inherent patterns in reality are not rules to be followed. They are unavoidable. If you can figure out a way to get around one, it is not an inherent pattern.”
― George Hammond

“If you are easily fooled, you will be ― by those who aren’t confident enough to play by the rules. And they are almost always the majority.”
― George Hammond

“In my day, living where I did, I was taught to say 'yes, sir' and 'yes ma'am.' I was taught respect.
On the one hand, adults in Greensville also showed respect for kids. You rarely heard a grown-up curse in front of a child, for example. Kids were taught to mind their manners all right, but as far as I could tell, the older folk set a decent example.”
― Ray Charles, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“How can we hold both in creative tension, the rule and the exception to the rule?”
― Richard Rohr

“Normalize not jumping into marriage. It's ok to be single, ya dig. There are no rules or laws to fit the stereotypical ideas that everyone should be married. Quit. Plus, have you seen the divorce rate?”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“Every moment I question the rules we play by that keep us confined by our loneliness and (for many) imprisoned by meds. What possibilities lie dormant or stuffed away? What could it look like if we claimed our own personal truth, our own personal definitions of integrity, and our freedom to break unnecessary societal rules for our own sanity?”
― Julieanne O'Connor