R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rules and consequences are not the best tools for classroom management. Giving students goals and rewards is more effective. It’s about putting systems in place that actively incentivize good behavior and passively decentivize bad behavior. In this way, as a teacher you can spend less time on managing behaviors and more time on educating and leading.”
“Rules and laws are not perfect, because they are made by imperfect human beings. They are not immune to change.”
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
“Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.”
Source: Problems and projects
“Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.”
“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.”
“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
“Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.”
Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections
“Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.”
Source: How to Get Ideas
“Rules are choices you’ve stopped making”
Source: The Simple Book of Infinity
“Rules are different for poets.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.”
Source: The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression
“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
Source: Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three
“Rules are for suckers.”
Source: Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
“Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.”
“Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.”
“Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.”
Source: Quant
“Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.”
“Rules are made to be broken, but hearts are broken to be made.
It is a big miracle to be loved "because" of your inadequacies, not "despite" them.
And nothing can be as fascinating as walking tall on the same road that once witnessed your fall.”
Source: The Soldier Within
“Rules are made to be broken." - Jared”
Source: Breathe In
“Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.”
“Rules are means not your ends.”
“Rules are my very humble, obedient servants.”
“Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.”
Source: Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are
“Rules are not immutable—they can be rewritten.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4
“Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"”
“Rules are rules was stuffed into him from the crib like he was a Thanksgiving turkey.”
Source: Silent Source
“Rules are set, mostly does not change.”
“Rules are the flavour of the Ethics and Ethics is the God.”
Source: Key for the Next Generation Growth: Author: Human composer of the God played new tune
“Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.”
“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”
“Rules are what governs us as humans, but it was wonderful to meet a man who said "There are no rules. You gotta be what you gotta be and you gotta believe in it." I know that's a feeling I used to feel a lot at a younger age, and through the sense of responsibility and working with so many and taking on so many duties and actions, you lose if you don't stay on top of it. So that's what I love about this man, that there are no rules.”
“Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.”
“Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder---or even order, in contrast---is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the Universe is absolute, nothing being lacking, insignificant, or improvable. So, any such thing as a Theory of Everything (TOE) is a mere chimera.”
“Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.”
“Rules breed rebels. I think it’s important to think for yourself when making art. That way you’re leaving a mark as uniquely yours as your own fingerprints. We’ve all been taught that the black sheep is a deviation from acceptable standards and something to be avoided. Still, when you see it amongst a herd, its lack of conformity is what steals your breath and captures your attention.”
“Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.”
“Rules cannot take the place of character.”
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.”
“Rules. Even as the world of phone and computer sex (and dominance) were full of their own rules, so was the new world of doing-it-for real. And some of these new rules, (OK, most of them, Robin admitted) were just as silly as the ones she had learned and followed before. Safe words, for example. Magic words that when said by the bottom, stopped a scene so that some kind of inconvenient or dangerous activity could be halted. Robin had nothing against the concept.........
Having a code to use so that you're free to pull against the bondage or whimper "no, no, no" seemed to be a great idea. But having all these possible ways to orchestrate what was happening seemed, well, contrary to the point........
I want to feel that I can't stop it. I want to be really mastered, taken over by someone who isn't goin to stop doing things because I'm not getting off on it. Someone who knows enough not to endanger me, unless that was what was intended.........”
Source: The Slave
“rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.”
“Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face.”
“Rules for Disappearing by Witness Protection Prisoner #18A7R04M: Don’t fall into a routine. Shake things up. Doing the same thing over and over makes you feel comfortable. And feeling comfortable is bad.”
Source: The Rules for Disappearing
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
“Rules for Living by Olivia Joules
14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:
15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.”
Source: Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
“Rules for making the world:
1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing.
2. That's it.
(If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.)
—Action Plan”
Source: Theories of Everything