622 Quotes About Rules

The first rule about authenticity is that you don’t talk about authenticity.

Rules are for people with the luxury of time.

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?

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagueson her coffee break, yet we don’t judge a man if he doesn’t grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men’s rules and conditions? Why did I?

With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy...

I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.