#rule

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #rules #unattainable #love

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#imagination

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.) ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fulfillment #inspirational #last-words #natural #rules

Often the best way to access a treasure is to imagine its loss. ↗

— Br. Jerome Leo

#monasticism #st-benedict #imagination

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#exceptions #fool #fools #idiot #idiots

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#inspirational #inspirational

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence #mob-rule #mobs #people #intelligence

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#first #him #intelligence #look #men

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred