#rule

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

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

#belief #century #half #human #human kindness

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

— Nenia Campbell

#life #life-lessons #rules #life

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#being #embarrassed #fail #follow #hurt

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#buy #carry #children #consumerism #first

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. ↗

— Buddha

#does #eternal #hatred #love #only

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bad people #character #find #good #interpreting

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#awful #brutal #certain #certain time #definite

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#been #books #down #exception #however