T Quotes
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“The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.”
Source: Panic
“The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.”
“The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.”
Source: Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton
“The rules of Qannabbi are simple and elegant. Each team has five players. There's two Trimmers, one Grinder, one Rollpacker, and one
Toker. The goal is for the team to clean, prepare and consume their marijuana as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
Source: Hairy Pothead & the Marijuana Stone
“The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.”
Source: The Physical Geography of the Sea
“The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.”
“The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.”
“The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.”
“The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.”
“The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.”
“The rules of the divine game resulted in a certain isolation of the soul.”
Source: The Divine Farce
“The rules of the English language, its building blocks, barely make any sense. English is not logical, it’s expressive. And expression is nothing compared to logic.”
Source: In Limbo
“The rules of the game are different in society for minorities, as we live in the figurative “basement” of this world, the floor beneath the first level. It is a floor where you become acclimated to the struggle to be treated equally in education, employment, housing, and more. It becomes a normal part of your life and your reality. So when times get difficult for a Black person, there is no sensation of “the sky is falling” because the truth is, the sky never got off the ground on our side of town anyway.”
“The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.”
“The rules of the game in general are going to change for everything, not just menswear. People want to have fun with clothes. We sold out of the mirror suits in New York, and the black suits were still there. It tells me that men are looking for something that makes them feel good, makes them have fun, and makes them stand out. And it's all different sorts of men.”
“The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.”
“The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!”
“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.”
Source: Going in Circles
“The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.”
“The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.”
Source: Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age
“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter".”
“The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.”
Source: Predatory Kill
“The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism.”
Source: After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy
“The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.”
Source: The Water Wars
“The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
“The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.”
“The rules that apply to line on dry land no longer apply. You're immersed in water, a substance which has the potential to drown you. If you're not accustomed to swimming every instinct tells you to yell in terror and grab the rail at hte side of the pool, but in fact this isn't the way to deal with the problem. You have to make the problem no longer a problem by embracing it--you have to let go of the rail and launch yourself out on the water because once you're swimming...you find the water's stimulating, bracing, even welcoming. So by embracing the chaos instead of shunning it you've opened up a whole new dimension of reality. Father Lewis Hall”
Source: The High Flyer
“The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the places where the strictest gun control measures, whether it be California, Los Angeles, Barack Obama's home state in Chicago, they're a disaster, and they have the greatest rules in the world.”
“The rules that have really changed, and are still changing, do not so much concern what is right or wrong in sex: women have been telling men the truth about that, one way or another, for a very long time. The rules that have really changed for men like Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, John Hockenberry and many others like them is that they can no longer be confident that when they ignore the shouts and silences of the women they demean, no consequences will follow.”
Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.”
“The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“The rules that shape the lives of employees in the workplace today often don’t honor the lives of employees outside the workplace. That can make the workplace a hostile place—because it pits your work against your family in a contest one side has to lose.”
Source: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“The rules that the society creates are there to ensure security, not to ensure progress.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“The rules that the United States introduce will be obviously be rules for the United States, but I'm very clear about the opportunities I expect everyone in the UK to have. I will be representing the interests of everyone in the UK on a whole range of things we will talk about.”
“The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“The rules were clear then. If you once crossed the line from journalism into partisan politics, you could not return. They were them and we were us.”
Source: Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics
“The rules were simple, as far as I could tell. Being correct had nothing to do with substance and everything to do with style. The correct answer was a matter of yelling loudly. Whoever yelled the loudest was telling the greatest version of the truth. The title of the show was Objectivity.”
Source: Black Friday 2050: The powerful psychological thriller set in a terrifying high-tech future
“The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.”
“The rules you’ve been taught about success weren’t designed for your success. They were designed for your compliance.”
Source: Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
“The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.”
Source: Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”
Source: Hilarity Ensues
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
Source: Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes
“The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.”
“The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.”
Source: The Secrets Known Only To The Inner Elites
“The ruling class doesn't follow ideas; they have only purposes for their will, whether wrong or right.”
“The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.”
“The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to be approximated in the 60s).”