Breaking The Rules Quotes

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”
― David Bottoms

“This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?”
― Lisi Harrison, Monster High

“Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.”
― Lisi Harrison, Monster High

“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities. It paid, she said; it was camouflage. If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she was pretending she had, to get them out of trouble. It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Don't you think people make their own choices in life?'

'They do, but in many cases their choices are limited--unless they break the rules.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask

“Maybe the most important rule for creating miracles is breaking the rules!”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“As a rule,
I believe people shouldn't follow rules;
rules should follow people.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.”
― Nuno Roque

“While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.”
― Nuno Roque

“I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.”
― Nuno Roque

“Let’s be honest, Carefree Scamps have rarely been accused of being the epitome of virtue, and that’s because we intermittently break the rules. Yet despite this we are often charming enough for others around us to make allowances. “He’s just prone to being misled.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“...I believe the risk she presents, whether she speaks her suspicions or not, is nothing greater then risk. If we make exceptions or not, is nothing to the greater risk. If we make exceptions to protect ourselves, we risk something much more important. We risk losing the essence of who we are.”
― Stephanie Meyer (Midnight Sun), Midnight Sun

“I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.”
― Georg Rauch, An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

“It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- Jocelyn Butler”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

“He still had not realized there was no coming back from this mess. He was hopeful they would persevere, no matter how long it took. In the meantime, there was no time to think inside the lines anymore. They had to break some rules, if they were going to survive the night. It was all out war on the infected. No holds barred.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“It’s so hard to write a new story when you do everything by the book.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If their rules made sense
and sense ruled—
If their laws weren’t so brok- en
I wouldn’t break ‘em.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“Life is a game with breaking the rules.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“When the law doesn't protect people, then people protect themselves with breaking the law.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Then, I relaxed some of the rules. While this created an awkward situation, it allowed us to form a new kind of relationship where the house was no longer under my personal oversight. We had to discard everything we knew and start again, introducing ourselves through the exchange of new ideas.”
― Sara Ellie MacKenzie, Revolution