War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Josef Albers

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.
Josef Albers

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham

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.
Shelby Foote

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.
Henry Van Dyke

He who has the gold makes the rules.
Tyler Perry

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky

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.
Billy Sunday

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.
David Brin

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
Lawrence Taylor

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
Lawrence Taylor

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.
Brian Greene

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Hannah Arendt

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Rob Walton

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan