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Rules and models destroy genius and art. -- William Hazlitt
Rules cannot take the place of character. -- Alan Greenspan
Rules of taste enforce structures of power. -- Susan Sontag
Rules are my very humble, obedient servants. -- Joseph Haydn
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that. -- Simon Cowell
Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone. -- Judah Smith
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. -- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible. -- Dharma Mittra
Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules. -- Mason Cooley
For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent. -- Michael Caine
Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules. -- Billy Herman
Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them -- Chetan Bhagat
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men. -- Colin Chapman
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules. -- Mr. T
Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose. -- Ike Barinholtz
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. -- Douglas Bader
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. -- Douglas Bader
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. -- Chuck Yeager
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. -- Ernest Gaines
Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. -- Mary Quant
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. -- Michael Caine
I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules. -- Kieran Culkin
Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by. -- Winston Churchill
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. -- Joe Abercrombie
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. -- Jack Foster
Rules broken today become norms tomorrow. -- Bill Gates
Rules without relationship leads to rebellion. -- Josh McDowell
If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules! -- Ronnie James Dio
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. -- Marilyn Monroe
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. -- Otto von Bismarck
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. -- Richard Branson
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. -- Gary Gygax
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? -- Leo Durocher
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. -- Albert Einstein
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. -- Lou Holtz
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
It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. -- Alexander McQueen
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. -- Malcolm X
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. -- Hannah Arendt
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living. -- Ryan McGinley
I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures. -- Judith Martin
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. -- Michelle Obama
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. -- John Henry Newman
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. -- Virginia Satir
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. -- Susan B. Anthony
If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now. -- Bob Marley
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life. -- Amy Chua
Restrict bankruptcy rules. -- Jerry Weller
Thought rules mankind. -- Grenville Kleiser
Necessity knows no rules. -- August Strindberg
The rules are simple! -- Kazuki Takahashi
Number rules the universe. -- Pythagoras
Appearance rules the world. -- Friedrich Schiller
Less rules, more intuition. -- Alan Cohen
Imagination rules the earth -- Albert Einstein
Imagination rules the world. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Injustice never rules forever. -- Seneca the Younger
Integrity needs no rules. -- Albert Camus
A strong spirit transcends rules. -- Prince
Societies depend on agreed rules. -- John Maynard Smith
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Psychology of small things rules. -- Stefan Fatsis
The moment rules over everything. -- David Hockney
The unsaid rules every conversation. -- Marty Rubin
A strong spirit transcends rules -- Prince
Pups think rules are suggestions. -- Nalini Singh
Existence precedes and rules essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The rules are very strict... -- Mary Downing Hahn
The beginning sets the rules. -- Mason Cooley
If kindness wins, accountability rules. -- Galit Breen
I have rules for everything. -- Hans Vestberg
I like breaking the rules. -- Lexa Doig
Intelligence is ten million rules. -- Douglas Lenat
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. -- William Wordsworth
Too many rules with stifle innovation. -- Sergey Brin
there are NO rules, merely suggestions -- Keri Smith
History admits no rules; only outcomes. -- David Mitchell
We're not attempting to circumcise rules. -- Bill Cowher
But rules cannot substitute for character. -- Alan Greenspan
True love rules especially through memory. -- Honore de Balzac
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules. -- Aristotle
Compass rules direction; Decision rules life! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Among the blind, the squinter rules -- Proverb
By all means break the rules... -- Robert Bringhurst
I do like artfully breaking rules. -- Alton Brown
The gods have their own rules. -- Ovid
Life is short, break the rules. -- Mark Twain
There are no rules in filmmaking -- Frank Capra
Integrity has no need of rules. -- Albert Camus
I had always broken the rules. -- Lauren Hutton
Who rules our symbols, rules us. -- Alfred Korzybski
There are no rules for felicity. -- Victor Hugo
I like rules that are broken. -- Shelby Lynne
love means breaking all the rules -- Lori Foster
break the rules pay the price -- Brandon Mull
Nature, not human activity, rules the climate. -- Fred Singer
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. -- Charlotte Bronte
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war. -- Livy
You don't have to follow anybody's rules. -- James Frey
Our beliefs are really rules for action. -- William James
Some rules are bigger than the universe. -- Richelle Mead
Remember: Life is short, break the rules -- James Dean
The rules are what make us better. -- Larry Moss
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. -- Quintilian
When reason rules, money is a blessing. -- Publilius Syrus
Learn all the rules... then break them. -- Lea DeLaria
Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity. -- Debasish Mridha
When passion rules, she never rules wisely. -- Benjamin Franklin
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. -- Mason Cooley
America rules the world - by force. -- Harry Browne
Does fate ever play by the rules? -- Jodi Picoult
I'm tired of the rules," I say. -- Kathryn Stockett
Follow the rules or follow the fools. -- Tupac Shakur

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