The government only makes restrictive rules, they don’t show you what to do so you know, OK, here’s where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. – Harry Seidler
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. – Grover Cleveland
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through. – Ian Hislop
At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me. – Hugh Jackman
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures – a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. – Harry Browne
So the next thing I assume I’ll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules. – Harry Reid
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. – Guy Kawasaki
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited. – Hjalmar Schacht
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well. – Julia Child
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you’ve got an adolescent boy, you’re in the sweet spot for trouble. – Jeffrey Kluger
I believe in rules of behavior, and I’m quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules. – John Irving
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just ‘the wine,’ from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. – Jacques Pepin
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don’t even understand the rules, which doesn’t stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race. – Jill Lepore
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. – Jeffrey Eugenides
Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n’ roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules. – John Legend
Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it’s the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market. – Jean Chatzky
At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn’t all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn’t go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong. – Jill Soloway
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
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. – John Malkovich
Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers. – James Gleick
The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone’s actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral – in a word, that there is a Universal Order. – Jean Piaget
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. – John Ortberg
I’ve had lots of ups and downs. I’ve had situations where I’ve gone against the rules, and I’ve lost everything. – James Altucher
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. – Jack Nicklaus
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don’t use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing. – James Cameron
