Top 1200 Rules For Radicals Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

I like playing with fashion and bending the "rules," or what was "rules" - there are no rules anymore, you know? Fashion is way bigger than that and it's about wearing what you want and wearing what makes you feel comfortable and what makes you feel confident.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.

There are comedic rules and formulae and, while these tenets should be respected, especially by a newcomer, perversely you can still succeed by openly contradicting them. Because comedy is about breaking the rules. Even its own rules. Though, as with many disciplines, it is wise to master the basics before you attempt to subvert them.

We have such rigid rules, sometimes, that they don't have to be rules. They can be policies and procedures that can be adapted for the moment.

I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to break them, because if you make art only by the rules, then you make very boring art.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.

The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.