quotations about rules
My feeling is the rules are the rules.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
"Christie on Fiorina Debate Exclusion", Breitbart, February 6, 2016
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myth
If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules.
ANONYMOUS
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
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT
Getting On
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
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK
attributed, The Blackie Sherrod Collection
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
Cannot say, I'm breaking the rules
If I can glue them back together
MARILYN MANSON
"Warship My Wreck"