Top 460 Rules Quotes

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese

I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it.
Lawrence Kudlow
I have been committed to carrying out my duties… in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
Samuel Alito
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.
Michael Shellenberger
You can’t really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it’s just two different ends of the totem pole.
Andrew Bogut
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
Anne Stevenson
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root
One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn’t care.
Michael Korda
Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won’t, and the practices they support and the ones they don’t. They will continue to be able to do so.
Pauley Perrette
I had a rule – I didn’t have a lot of rules – and one of them was we’re going to operate from a mutual respect. I won’t embarrass you, and I don’t expect you to be embarrass me.
Mike Holmgren
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
Jim Cantalupo
Societies depend on agreed rules.
John Maynard Smith
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Michael Behe
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
That’s maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne
When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.
Andrew Fastow
There are no rules in live television.
Harsha Bhogle
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Mike Krzyzewski
I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
Madonna Ciccone
I’m an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don’t really have any music theory, they don’t have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it’s mostly because we don’t know what the rules are. It’s easy for us to go to certain places, so I’m not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.
Frank Black
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Mason Cooley
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
Joe Garagiola
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole
I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
Yingluck Shinawatra
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
Naomi Klein
The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.
Roger Goodell
I didn’t want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man – that is to say, the strongest and cleverest – is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
Lafcadio Hearn
Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it’s going to hurt their feelings. They’re actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
Cesar Millan
Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.
Kit Bond
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rule

Sometimes with ‘The New Yorker,’ they have grammar rules that just don’t feel right in my mouth.
David Sedaris
People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we’re seeing that our gender roles don’t have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.
Courtney Act
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you’re given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.
Alan Kay
It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
Al Franken
We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.
Jair Bolsonaro
I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.
Melissa Marr
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
Azar Nafisi
Sometimes there is dogma in baking and sometimes there is not – you just have to know when to break the rules and when to follow them.
Claire Saffitz
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Carl von Clausewitz
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
Leslie Banks
America rules the world – by force.
Harry Browne
I had a list of 10 rules when we started ‘Strong Island,’ and one of them was, ‘Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.’
Yance Ford
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre
Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
Charles Bukowski
The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something – everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that – the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don’t even think of it as an army strip… it’s a world anyone can understand.
Mort Walker
Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.
Adi Godrej
Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
Mary Douglas
Let’s build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and transparent, and the same for everyone.
Volodymyr Zelensky
You’re a Catholic in Italy when you’re born, it’s unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
Andrew Greeley
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars von Trier
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
Paul Ryan
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Francois Rabelais
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules.
Anna Quindlen
But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
Simon Greenleaf
If I am talking to a youngster, I coach him what I feel is best for him to bowl, how to hold the ball, how to bowl certain things, and how to bowl to certain batsmen, how to position himself. I never talk to them about the rules.
Garfield Sobers