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All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars.Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear?
— Svetlana Chmakova, Brave
I think you're talking shit. You think we don't all feel like that? Like we're crazy, like we're not a real person, like we don't exist? Everyone feels that way sometimes. I can remember talking to you when you lost your bag. So what? You can't remember and that's not a bad thing. It doesn't make me better than you. I'm a stranger to you, but here's what I see: I see a girl who has suffered a terrible damage to her brain. Someone who, it seems, is shut away by her parents to keep her safe. But inside there is a vibrant person, a traveler, and her memory of this boy Drake has propelled her into action. I think, Flora, that you came here not to find Drake but to find yourself. It wasn't Drake--he's an unlikely romantic hero, really--it was you. Didn't you come here, perhaps, because you heard him talking about the place he was going to, and it called to you?"I don't know what to say. I don't say anything. " Our come from Oslo, and Svalbard called me, even though I'm not really the rugged adventurous type. Like you, I had to come. Some of us are meant to be here. We need this place...We need to be small specks in wild nature, by the pole. The midnight sun. The midday darkness. The northern lights. It called to you, Flora, and you answered. You overcame everything, and you came here, alone. You are the bravest person I've ever met.
— Emily Barr, The One Memory of Flora Banks
I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.
— Sarah Morgan, Sunset in Central Park
You have to be brave when you are stupid
— M.Z.Riffi - The Queen of Granada
I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.
— C.J. Brightley, The Lord of Dreams
Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.
— Nicole Williams
Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.
— Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Be brave, be victorious
— Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness
Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruinedpurse. She slid the shoes on and straightened her shoulders. "I will go as a lady should," she claimed bravely. "In patent leather heels.
— Abigail Roux, Fish & Chips
The only choice you have right now is the color you want the house painted, and your choices are white and white." She was yelling by the time she finished, her face flushed.
— Linda Howard, Duncan's Bride
Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.
— Colin Myles, Life Positioning: 27 Success habits to increase your personal value
She is trying to be brave, but no one knows what brave looks like inside this particular moment.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.
— Gwenda Bond, Fallout
Coward people are afraid of failure & Failure is afraid of brave people
— Mohammed Sekouty
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
— Robert Schuller
Always stand up for what yo believe in... even if it means standing alone.
— Kim Hanks
When the song is over, she bows and I clap. I wonder how come she seems so brave. There is no part of her she hides. Lakeisha sits with me now on the bed and says,"Wanna hear a story?" I don't have to say yes before she tells me .
— Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it.
— tirumala
It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.
— Penelope Douglas, Corrupt
Most times you only have to be Brave ENOUGH.
— Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.
— Debasish Mridha
If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.
— Debasish Mridha
She whispered, "Even with a broken hand, you are the knight I'd most want and trust to rescue me-and I know you can do it. You are the boldest, bravest, most noble knight in the Holy Empire.
— Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden
Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.
— Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen.
— Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden
Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing in the world is to let someone love you.
— Jennifer Probst, Searching for Beautiful
Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.
— Alexis  Hall, Waiting for the Flood
Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.
— kim Fielding - Guarded
Fortune favors the brave."Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!
— Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea
it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything
— Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Sometimes even braves are incapable of handling situations.
— Kishore Bansal
But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.
— Muhammad Iqbal
If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.
— Holly Black, Valiant
Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
— Gerald Morris, Parsifal's Page
I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.
— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
She who is brave is free.
— Anonymous
Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.
— Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire
Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.
— Gary Ponzo, A Touch of Deceit
There is no such thing as a regrettable act of courage.
— Tammy Rosenfeld, Sarcasmic: Confessions of an Overthinker
Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow me...how BIG your BRAVE is!
— Sara Bareilles, Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out
— Sara Bareilles, Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
Always live the adventure.
— Christopher J. Holcroft, Only The Brave Dare
Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.
— Donna Lynn Hope
You are one brave woman," he whispers, "I am in awe of you.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
We can't be brave without fear.
— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to kill him, and that was the way he wanted to go, unafraid and on his feet. Like a warrior. The way Shadowhunters did. His death song would always be this-jokes and snideness and pretend arrogance, and that look in his eyes that said 'I'm better than you'. Simon just hadn't realized it before.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Just because there were times you were frightened doesn't mean you weren't brave.
— Christine Brodien-Jones, The Owl Keeper
Without doubt, it is the greatest act of courage that is often the most fearful.
— Christine Brodien-Jones, The Owl Keeper
Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.
— Shuanglin Lin
My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
It’s okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You’re just a little girl and it’s not your fault that your life is so much harder than it should be. And as much as you’ll want to forget these things ever happened to you and as much as you’ll want to forget this part of your life existed, I need for you to remember.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
— Brian Jacques, Mossflower
Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me."Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window."Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy...
— Catherine Fisher, Incarceron
I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.
— Sara Quin
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
— John Green, Paper Towns
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book of Dreams
I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
— Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
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 parking lot on the Fourth of July.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
— Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
You are remembered for the rules you break.
— Douglas MacArthur
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread
— Mario Puzo, The Last Don
Rules help us live our liveswhen we lose the will to do it on our own
— Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
— George Bernard Shaw
...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice--that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.
— Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club
She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.
— Susan Donovan, He Loves Lucy
2) Members will attend events together as a group, including, but not limited to, Homecoming, Prom, parties, and other couply events, despite possibly being labeled as freaks and getting jealous looks from guys who wish we were their hot dates, but instead have to settle for some lame wannabe.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, The Lonely Hearts Club
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
— Therese Anne Fowler, Souvenir
They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game
— R.D. Laing
Error of omission begets new rules.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)
— Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.
— David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Normally, he liked boundaries. Boundaries were the safety net. Boundaries kept people on the right path. But right now, he felt like rules were made to be broken and consequences were miles and miles away.
— Heather Burch, Halflings
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The rules are simple!
— Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 1: The Millenium Puzzle
If you follow the rules, it's your own fault.
— Marty Rubin
I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them.
— W. Somerset Maugham
But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules
—  nothing.
But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.
— Howard Behar, It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
- 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, or taps out, the fight is over- Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight- Fifth rule: one fight at a time- Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons- Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to- The eighth : if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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.
— Natalie C. Anderson, City of Saints & Thieves
I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.
— Georg Rauch, An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army
It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- Jocelyn Butler
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
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?
— Delilah S. Dawson, Phasma
Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.
— Richard Dawkins, Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.
— Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
I am a palette of emotions; I remember how I have cov-eted to be free from the school rules. I look around to see people casually dressed up and walking with an aim maybe to make a better career or just add fame of DU degree like me. The campus is buzzing with freshman and activity. I just hope, these corridors, hallways, and passages don’t see me trip-ping and falling any day. I feel more comfortable standing in between the crowd of people moving. Like nobody is paying any heed. You can be yourself without feeling awkward about anything.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.
— Sunday Adelaja
Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.
— Peter Milligan, The Discipline, Volume One: The Seduction
Your way, your rules. Their way - their rules.
— Deyth Banger
Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
— F.K. Preston
I have two rules:First, I'm never wrong.Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."L Lawliet
— Tsugumi Ohba, Death note
I hate when I break my own rules. What’s the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?
— Jesse Ball, How to Set a Fire and Why
You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.
— Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask
nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.
— Douglas Preston, Dance of Death
To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!
— Deyth Banger
We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us.
— Deyth Banger
The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
Rules are rules... sometimes we should get out of them other times we get caugh for breaking the rules... but what happens when a relative is affected in your work?Like you have to choose the relative or the work... what happens then!?
— Deyth Banger
Don’t you understand? It’s forbidden, Aladdin! We jinn must abide by many rules, but first among them, most important of all, we must never fall in love with a human!”He catches his breath, swallowing hard. “And do you always follow the rules?”“I—” Casting my gaze skyward, I draw a deep breath, searching for words among the stars. “It’s not about that. Do you know what kind of destruction we would cause? Have you not heard the story of your own people, how their city was destroyed, how thousands died? It was not hate that sparked the war between your people and mine, Aladdin. It was love. I held hands with Roshana the Wise and called her sister, and those words set our world on fire!”There it is. My greatest shame, laid bare. The truth lies between us like broken glass. Surely now he sees what I truly am: a betrayer, a monster, an enemy. Aladdin stares at me, his face softening.“That wasn’t your fault,” he says. “Loving someone is never wrong. And like you said, it’s not a choice. It just happens, and we’re all helpless in its power.”“That doesn’t change the fact that the consequences are disastrous. As the poets say, shake hands with a jinni, and you shake hands with death.
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.
— Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears
I thought I told you I don’t play by the rules,” I argue.“Ye’re mistaken,” he says. “Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You’ll be playing by all my rules.
— A. Zavarelli, Crow
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
— Nuno Roque
Going in the known is like knowing the rules, once you know it... better you will do it.
— Deyth Banger
The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.
— Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.
— Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.
— Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village
You can’t cheat if there are no rules
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”“How do you win?” he asked.“That,” I said, “is such a boy question.”“What, girls don’t like to win?” He snorted. “Please. You’re the one who got all rule driven on me claiming Instant Breakfast isn’t a food.”“It’s not,” I told him. “It’s a beverage.” He rolled his eyes. I can’t believe this, I thought. A week or two ago putting a full sentence together in front of Wes was a challenge. Now we were arguing about liquids.“Okay,” he said, “back to Truth. You were saying?”I took in a breath. “To win, one person has to refuse to answer a question,” I said. “So, for example, let’s say I ask you a question and you don’t answer it. Then you get to ask me a question, and if I answer it, I win.”“But that’s too simple,” he said. “What if I ask you something easy?”“You wouldn’t,” I told him. “It has to be a really hard question, because you don’t want me to win.”“Ahhh,” he said, nodding. Then, after mulling it for a second he said, “Man. This is diabolical.” “It’s a girl’s game,” I explained, tilting my head back and looking at the stars. “Always good for a little drama at the slumber party. I told you, you don’t want to play.”“No. I do,” he squared his shoulders. “I can handle it.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
We do not propose any rules; we offer observations. "No right on red" is a rule. "Driving at high speed toward a brick wall usually ends badly" is an observation.
— Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
FREEDOM IS WHERE I AM NOT A PRISONER CARRYING A BAGGAGE OF OTHERS RULES.
— merlin8thomas
Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?
— Anne Rice
when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
My parents raised me to get things done, no matter what. They don’t care about rules, just appearances. This whole time I’ve been telling myself that I’m going to be different from my parents, different from my sister, be the one who stuck to the straight and narrow. But I think I had it all wrong, Call. I don’t care about rules or appearances. I don’t want to be the person who just gets things done. I want to do the right thing. I don’t care if we have to lie or cheat or cut corners or break rules to do it.
— Cassandra Clare
most people don't understand what process can do or can't do, chattr it's one of many way to show whoever you're root. Boss still boss and God still God.
— creatorbe
Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.
— Sunday Adelaja
There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
In the world of mulesThere are no rules.
— Ogden Nash
Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules
— Mary Oliver
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
— Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.
— Robert Jordan
Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.
— Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Network etiquette is our participation in groups. Following Netiquette rules is a contribution. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Success has NO Rules except ONE..It follows NO rules and most RULES are made on the way!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
New rules are made when you break one
— shubham phadte
There was five golden rules. My dad made me write them over and over until I knew them like I knew my own name...Number five: never have a fire in the daytime, 'cause people could see the smoke and come and get us.Number four: if I ever see anyone other than my dad, I run, and keep running.Number three: always say my prayers, so as God don't get mad at me and decide to come make me sick too.Numer two: never forget to pray for my momma, 'cause she was the best and prettiest lady God ever made.Number one: never, ever leave the woods.
— Jeff Lemire, Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods
On the battlefield there are no rules.
— Joe Abercrombie
Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ..."In a better world..." she began patiently."No, not in a better world!" he cried. "In this one--in this world. I take this world as a given. Talk to me about this world!" ..."Oh, I can't always be right," Larch said tiredly."Yes, I know," Nurse Caroline said sympathetically. "It's because even a good man can't always be right that we need a society, that we need certain rules--call them priorities, if you prefer," she said. ...Always in the background of his mind, there was a newborn baby crying... And they were not crying to be born, he knew; they were crying because they were born.
— John Irving, The Cider House Rules
There are no rules. That is how art is born.
— Helen Frankenthaler
Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.
— Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring
Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!
— G.S. Sreekiran
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.
— Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College
[Will Turner] "You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement."[Captain Jack Sparrow] "...that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then is it?
— Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio
There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Many Waters
I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.
— Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Belladonna Bay
Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.
— Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human
The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.
— Steve Maraboli
There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.
— Marilyn Grey, When the City Sleeps
Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow rules, but are also the most likely people to come up with a revolutionary new idea. They feel emotion intensly, but often seem to struggle to read facial expressions.
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
— Cathryn Louis
No exceptions to exceptions!
— Raheel Farooq
As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed in my soul. To me these were as universal, dependable, and invariable as the laws of nature. Together they constituted The Forty Rules of the Religion of Love, which could be attained through love and love only.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Some are meant to make rules, some are meant to break them. Others just follow.
— Pushkar Saraf
Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.
— Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
Not listening is a good way to get yourself killed here, which is exactly what would have happened if I hadn't come downstairs to see what trouble out resident dipshits had dragged in. You have yet to be ripped to pieces or to be removed of your ability to speak. If you want to keep it that way, I suggest that you learn to obey simple commands. Shut up.
— Skye Callahan, Irrevocable
The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.
— Lauren Oliver, Panic
Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.
— Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
there are NO rules, merely suggestions
— Keri Smith, How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.
— Matthew Fontaine Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology
Good.” He grinned.“I was kind of worried you’d say no. It’s like so against the rules it’s not even funny.”I smiled. “Well. I have to say, Jack Diamond, you’ve demonstrated a deplorable lack of respect for all of my rules.”He chuckled. “Never met a rule I couldn’t break.
— Audrey Bell, Love Show
I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
— Elmore Leonard
It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody
— John Lanchesterter
Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question. "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules.
— Lisa Renee Jones, The Master Undone
To dream in doctrines, how tidy!
— John le Carré, Call for the Dead
One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?
— Nicholas Sparks
I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.
— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.
— Stacey Kade, The Rules
RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOWBEWARE OF DOGANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXESDO NOT STEAL QUEENSA GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINSNECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATIONEVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATERWHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
For those of us who can, there are certain precautions we must take in order to protect ourselves and those around us. The first and most important is this-never acknowledge the dead. Don't look at them, don't speak to them don't let them sense your fear. Even when they touch you"..."The second thing you must remember is this," Papa said. "Never stray too far from hallowed ground."..."Rule Number Three," he said. "Keep your distance from those who are haunted. If they seek you out, turn away from them, for they constitute a terrible threat and cannot be trusted." ..."Rule Number Four," he said sternly. "Never, ever tempt fate.
— Amanda Stevens, The Restorer
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.
— Tyffani Clark Kemp, The Man Without Rules
What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.
— Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative
Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got." (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)
— William Shatner
Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father" ("Obedience Brings Blessings," April 2013 General Conference).
— Thomas S. Monson
Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.
— James Carlos Blake, A World of Thieves: A Novel
Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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.
— Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business
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 the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.
— Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business
rules didn’t do that thing with its tongue he liked, and they definitely didn’t keep him warm at night.
— Nulli Para Ora, Initiate
You make your own rules and then break one, that's really horrible.
— Moath Almasri
I didn't write the rules, why should i follow them?
— W. Eugene Smth
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure
— Henry Miller
I play by the rules even when there aren’t any.
— Stacy Kramer, From What I Remember...
I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
— Dan Wells, Mr. Monster
That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken
— Nenia Campbell, Endgame
He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly.""It's nature," she said, thoughtfully."I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
When you break rules, break 'em good and hard
— Terry Pratchett
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 your front brake first.‘If you follow them’, said the Sergeant, ‘you will save your soul and never get a fall on a slippery road.
— Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
— Thomas Wolfe
Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife means to me. In my heart, we are wed. In my soul, you are mine.
— Charlotte Featherstone, Sinful
Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll be good at this. I doubt it, but who knows. The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would have never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and sheild it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”“Because I love you. Because I love you so much I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it go differently this time.”... "Because we should be a married couple, because I never wanted to not be married to you. Because all these men out here dancing with their wives can’t possibly love them as much as I love you. Because for me, there is only one woman, and I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re it.
— Erin McCarthy, Hot Finish
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Leo resisted the urge to throw a grenade in Frank's face. "I suppose I should know who Pelops was?""He was a prince, won his wife in a chariot race. Supposedly he started the Olympic games in honor of that."Hazel sniffed. "How romantic. 'Nice wife you have, Prince Pelops.' 'Thanks. I won her in a chariot race.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more.
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
— O. Henry, The Complete Life of John Hopkins
Miss. My. Wife.
— Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love
He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive."She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can
Weddings have logic, but Marriages have emotions
— Santosh Avvannavar, Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a Superhero: "Weddings have logic, but Marriages have only emotions"
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job
— Malcolm X
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
— Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice
I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete
— John Steinbeck
We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded to put it in the bed under her sleeping husband's head. We laughingly told her not to put it there as he might get it, and it was money she had earned herself. She appreciated the joke, though it was told mostly by gestures, but seemed to have true ideas of the matrimonial relation, and was nothing loath to trust her all with him. page. 116
— Helen Josephine Sanborn, A Winter in Central America and Mexico.
Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.Yet...drink from the milk container in the fridge,and your wife will make you wish that you had drunk from the cup of life.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Had the love been perennial, there won’t have been murders of wives by husbands and murders of husbands by wives, who were lovers at a point of time.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
We spent a lot of money on buying clothes, but we spend our best times naked..
— Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye
A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
And now she stood outside the station with his flowers pressed happily to her breast, in all that red cardigan of hers, making the rest of the world look as if it was made in greyscale.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he’d sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says!
— P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.
— S.T. Bende, Elsker
There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Of all the roles she’d played – daughter, student, employee, sister and wife – wife was the smallest and in proportion the most difficult, as though it had run out of steam with its own scale. The word ‘wife’ was too small to accommodate its responsibility.
— Meghna Pant, One and a Half Wife
I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.
— Clive Cussler
It is only the wife, and not just any woman, who constitutes the noble soil that produces excellent fruits
— Sunday Adelaja
In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay