RULES QUOTES IV

quotations about rules

The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.

ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAËL

De l'Allemagne


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

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Tags: Robert A. Heinlein


If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: Anonymous quotes


Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The Power of Myth

Tags: Joseph Campbell


Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

NORA EPHRON

Commencement Address at Wellesley College, 1996


It's a game and it's not fair--it's not fair--but if you know the rules, you can increase your chance of success.

NARETHA HOPSON

"Etiquette maven relates manners to career advancement", Virgin Islands Daily News, October 15, 2017


We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

ALAN BENNETT

Getting On


Cannot say, I'm breaking the rules
If I can glue them back together

MARILYN MANSON

"Warship My Wreck"


If adopting a rule is a time-consuming, bureaucratic process, involving detailed fact-finding, cost-benefit analysis, and comment periods, undoing those rules is also cumbersome.

AMANDA PAULSON

"EPA's big shift: Will Scott Pruitt fundamentally change environmental protection?", Christian Science Monitor, October 3, 2017


I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

BILL VEECK

attributed, The Blackie Sherrod Collection