Top 1200 Breaking Rules Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

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 banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that's what leads to growth.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

In law, especially back in '95 when I was breaking in, it was much more of an old boys' network.

How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

It can be heart-breaking when you don't get something you really want, but there's always the next time.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

I have no problem breaking stereotypes. And proving people wrong - it's actually quite fun.

When you're talking horror or sci-fi, you're working in a genre that has loosely certain thematic elements, or, you could even call them rules. But rules are there to be broken. I think that young filmmakers should go all the way back to the history of horror, from silent films like "Nosferatu", and through to today's horror films, so they understand the history of horror films and what has been done. Understand that, and then add something new or original.

If we want to create new rules of globalization, then we can't just think in terms of the nation state. The nation state has long offered protection. But it suffers from the fact that many citizens increasingly fear that it can no longer protect them: The threat of transnational terrorism is growing. Freedom of movement rules in Europe facilitate social dumping. Regardless of the make-up of the next government, it must have clear ideas on how to overcome the lack of direction of recent years.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people with breaking down the walls.

'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer.

Oftentimes you're breaking out because your face is lacking moisture or hydration.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

Feminism is something I think about more when I watch the film, Christine, rather than when I was actually doing it, to be honest with you. But I do think it functions as a sort of interesting feministic critique, because you are seeing a woman who's resolutely incapable of behaving like the kind of woman that's acceptable at the time. She doesn't know how to play the game by everyone else's rules, and it makes you realize that actually there were rules that were functioning for a woman to be a careerist.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.

The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

In my movie, "Death By China," it shows Bill Clinton in 2000 promising that when China got into the World Trade Organization we would be making products here and selling them there, and life would be great. Just the opposite has happened. And here's why this has been so devastating - China went into the World Trade Organization and agreed to play by certain rules. Instead, it's violated these rules. For 15 years, it continues to illegally subsidize its exports.

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.