Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
~By Elihu Root ~
I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
~By Jose Carreras ~
In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.
~By Jeff Probst ~
The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
~By Kim Weston ~
In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
~By Wayne Allard ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules.
~By John Graham Chambers ~
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
~By Ross Perot ~
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.
~By Michael McLaughlin ~
I like rules that are broken.
~By Shelby Lynne ~
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
~By Fred Thompson ~
We have to be careful about creating more rules.
~By Paul Parker ~
We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.
~By William Brewster ~
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
~By David Ogilvy ~
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
~By Chad Hugo ~
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~By Elihu Root ~
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
~By Eugene Levy ~
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.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
~By Claude Debussy ~
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
~By Paul Nitze ~
Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.
~By Paul Parker ~
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
~By Tom Watson ~
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
~By Bill Veeck ~
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
~By Bill Shankly ~
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
~By Tacitus ~
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
~By Frank Crane ~
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
~By Quintilian ~
I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
~By Angela Carter ~
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
~By Peter Frederick Strawson ~
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~By Len Wein ~
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
~By Phil Ochs ~
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
~By Christopher Wren ~
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
~By Ken Venturi ~
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
~By Muqtada al Sadr ~
The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
~By Ty Cobb ~
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
~By Alan Rickman ~
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
~By Brion James ~
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.
~By Lee Hazlewood ~
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
~By David Brin ~
I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
~By Tim McGraw ~
Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.
~By Nick Clooney ~
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
~By Stephen Wolfram ~
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
~By Robert Walpole ~
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
~By Chuck Yeager ~
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
~By Jon Voight ~
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
~By Abraham Pais ~
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.
~By Levon Helm ~
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
~By Ted Turner ~
When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.
~By Al Edwards ~
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
~By Henry Longhurst ~
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
~By Bill Cosby ~
So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
~By Harry Reid ~
I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.
~By Guy Clark ~
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
~By Olivia De Havilland ~
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
~By Thomas More ~
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
~By Isambard K. Brunel ~
At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
~By Charlize Theron ~
I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
~By John Malkovich ~
You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.
~By Meg Whitman ~
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
~By Harold Ramis ~
So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
~By Pat Boone ~
I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.
~By Klaus Schulze ~
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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