The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.
What power has law where only money rules.
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.
You know, you work hard but play by the rules, you can rise. You can do well. That's what we're taught. That's what we believe. That's what we think of as America. Problem is, there are just generations of people in this country who do not think that.
There are no rules to writing a song.
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules. . . No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.
The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.
I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.
Resolutions are just like rules. They're just made to be broken.
In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
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.
There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.