Rules Quotes - page 12

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. (J. D. Salinger)
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others. View quote
Albert Einstein
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it. View quote
Adam Smith
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing. (Adam Smith)
I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life. View quote
Lawrence Taylor
Systemicity is imposed as a set of rules binding the parts among themselves. But these rules do not constrain the parts to act in one way and one way only; they merely prescribe that certain types of functions are carried out in certain sequences. The parts have options; as long as a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified units carry out the prescribed tasks, the requirements of systemic determination are met. View quote
Ervin László
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one. View quote
Aldo Leopold
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. View quote
Malcolm Mclaren
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery. View quote
Malcolm Mclaren
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. View quote
Mark Haddon
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not. View quote
Matthew Hussey
It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken. (Melissa de la Cruz)
Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows-she sees-how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency. View quote
Neal Shusterman
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory. View quote
Neal Shusterman
If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. View quote
Nina Garcia