One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.
Michael Korda

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Anne Hutchinson

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Alanis Morissette

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.
Nicolas Cage

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.
Ty Cobb

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.
R. D. Laing

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
Billy Corgan

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.
Lou Reed

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.
Hayden Fry

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft

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.
Tim McGraw

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?
Emeril Lagasse

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.
Charlize Theron

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Appearance rules the world.
Friedrich Schiller