#rules

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#between #circle #departure #difference #eccentric

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#life #life-lessons #rules #life

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. ↗

— Quintilian

#natural #rules #technical #useless #without

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules. ↗

— Ben Harper

#away #burn #find #make #only

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. ↗

— Max Hastings

#get #going #later #life #ones

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#principles #rules #sacred

live well love much laugh often ↗

— my cup

#life

If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives. ↗

— Brandon Andress

#abandoned #christian #christianity #collapse #economies

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#rules #imagination