106 quotes found
“Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks.”
“Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising t...”
“rules didnt do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didnt keep him warm at night.”
“You make your own rules and then break one, that's really horrible.”
“I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?”
“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
“When you break rules, break 'em good and hard”
“Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply yo...”
“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”
“German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.”
“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.”
“We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British ...”
“No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.”
“All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.”
“Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ”
“You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.”
“Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a pa...”
“- The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club- Third rule of Fight Club, if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp...”
“Rules will break you as often as you break them. But I guess that’s okay.Maybe I’m done with rules.For now, anyway.I think I will just be. I will exist. And see what happens.”
“That’s the problem with following all the rules—somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?”
