Rules Quotes - page 9

Groundless superstition ill becomes an army; Valour is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. (Silius Italicus)
Learn all the rules... then break them. View quote
Lea DeLaria
Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules. View quote
Marty Feldman
Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. View quote
Bertrand Russell
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me. View quote
Justin Bieber
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies. (Ulysses S. Grant)
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people. View quote
Bill Watterson
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence. View quote
Jack Welch
I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn't help but wonder why. Didn't they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I'm one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don't apply to me. View quote
Jarvis Cocker
When reason rules, money is a blessing. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. View quote
David Hume
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
But yet they that have no Science, are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do. View quote
Natalie Portman
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. (Phil Ochs)
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules. View quote
Alain Finkielkraut
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever. View quote
Agathon
Happy (if mortals can be) is the man, Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span: Reason, to its possessor a sure guide, Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. View quote
Thomas Chatterton
Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini