#rule

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#life

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#life #people #routine #rules #space

Tyrants have only one problem in life. They simply just wanna rule everything. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #problem #rule #simply #tyrants

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#rules-of-life #life

It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117) ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#rules #life

Mr. Passaro, let me teach you about how medicine works.” He starts out. “One of two things is going to happen. Either the Doctors are going to say I told you so, or they are going to say that Jess was the exception. What you believe will determine who gets to say I told you so to whom.” “Never stop believing.” He begs me. “Doctor, you are on the team”. I say. He smiles. ↗

— John Passaro

#doctors #exception-to-the-rule #life

...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.... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #rules #slow-thinking #love

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hurt #love #rules #strong #love

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #power #rules #tyrant #world

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#bible-interpretation #golden-rule #love #scriptures #love