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Rules For Quotes

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
- Jacob Bronowski

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
- Ansel Adams

That's how love got lost... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.
- Paulo Coelho

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
- Ernest Hemingway

I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.
- Lisa Kleypas

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
- Billie Joe Armstrong

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
- Blaise Pascal

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
- Thomas Beecham

Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.
- Haruki Murakami

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
- Paracelsus

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- William Hazlitt

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby

Heinlein's Rules for Writers
Rule One: You Must Write
Rule Two: Finish What Your Start
Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order
Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market
Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold
- Robert A Heinlein

My father has always broken the rules for those he loves, just as my mother has always kept them for the same reason. 'We can't give you the life you want,' my father says, his eyes wet. He looks at my mother and she nods at him to continue. 'We wish we could. But we can help you have a chance to decide which life you want.
- Ally Condie

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
- Mason Cooley

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
- Mason Cooley

You do not go near them. You do not allow them to touch you. If one does touch you, I will eat his spine."
"It's good," she commented, "that we're establishing rules. For instance, being a newcomer here, I might not understand the whole 'don't touch or be devoured' guideline..."
-Prince Maltese and Lt. Anne
- Maryjanice Davidson

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
- Jacques Derrida

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

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
- Sigmar Gabriel

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it. [Regarding the '10 Rules for Science Fiction' article posted at http://www.cthreepo.com/writing/laws....]
- Kevin Hosey

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.
- Michael Isikoff

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
- Brion James

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.
- Bobby Jindal

18 rules for not getting caught. 1-17: don't tell anybody. #18: not even your clone.
- Jarod Kintz

Immanuel Kant, an 18th century philosopher defined the rules for happiness as having someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- Immanuel Kant

Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for.
- Immanuel Kant

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?
- Jimmy Kimmel

Jake knew that his mother had a tendency to mistake rules, her rules, for principles. She did not bend because she did not have enough confidence to know when or how far. She did not listen well because one ear was always otherwise engaged - either listening to what she herself had just said or what she would say next.
- E L Konigsburg

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
- Mercedes Lackey

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
- John Malkovich

It was, however, strikingin the best sense of the wordthat precisely those rules that corresponded exactly to their overseers' economic interests enjoyed unconditional veneration, whereas rules for which said correspondence was less applicable were more likely to be winked at.
- Thomas Mann

Injustice never rules forever
- Seneca

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W Somerset Maugham

You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do.
- Karen Marie Moning

Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?
- Karen Marie Moning

You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that? - JZB
- Karen Marie Moning

He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.
- Karen Marie Moning

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.
Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.
Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.
-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life
- Lauren Myracle

Some guys are worth breaking the rules for.
- Melissa Pearl

Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.
- Trevor Phillips

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
- Karl Rove

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
- Todd Rundgren

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.
- Elizabeth Scott

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
- Al Sharpton

The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.
- Susan Richards Shreve

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
- Susan Sontag

The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
- Taylor Swift

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
- Lawrence Taylor

Rules for Self Discovery:
1. What we want most;
2. What we think about most;
3. How we use our money;
4. What we do with our leisure time;
5. The company we enjoy;
6. Who and what we admire;
7. What we laugh at.
- A W Tozer

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.
- Scott Turow

In my world, people are always plotting. You
have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every
day. Like it was nothing. Or there's a set of special rules for them.
Remember when Bush made that whole speech about 'corporate
ethics' last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or
WorldCom is an aberration? It's only the tip. Business is a religion.
Probably the only one practiced all over the world.
- Andrew Vachss

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
- Jon Voight

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
- Jay Weatherill

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