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Rules Quotes

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

– John Milton

When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.

– Jim Brown

I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, ‘You’re only allowed to have this or that on your desk.’ It’s no fun to work at a place like that.

– John Lasseter

We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing.

– Jeb Bush

I’m very close to thinking the United States shouldn’t be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say, ‘If it’s not in the interests of the United States, we’re not doing it.’

– Jamie Dimon

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

– Joseph Campbell

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

– Ian Hacking

What I’m trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it’s almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that’s what I was doing.

– Jeff Buckley

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can’t do this and we can’t do that. We need concise, clear answers.

– Jan Brewer

Whenever you write for someone else, you’re always aware – sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level – of the rules about what you can and can’t do.

– J. Michael Straczynski

Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

– John Roberts

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

– Joss Whedon

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

– Helen Oyeyemi

The biggest influence? I’ve had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

– Jackson Browne

When you have a problem, rules don’t solve your problem. It’s caring and education.

– Jim Brown

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

– Jimmy Cliff

I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

– Ingvar Kamprad

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You’re stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it’s just trying to peel away and see what’s underneath them. That to me is really fun.

– Joss Whedon

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

– Josef Albers

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don’t apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

– Julian Baggini

If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not – and the odds are against it – go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper – write.

– J. B. Priestley

I don’t think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

– Jake Gyllenhaal

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it’s a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

– Jamie Dimon

Rules are important, but they’re temporary and they’re always supposed to be changed.

– John Lydon

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can’t do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

– J. Michael Straczynski

Existence precedes and rules essence.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

– John Cleese

You’re not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

– John Madden

Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there’s also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.

– Jennifer Pahlka

I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny… To me, those are people who think the rules don’t apply to them.

– Alec Baldwin

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