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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
- Madeleine L'Engle
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
- Madeleine L'Engle
The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
- Herbert Hoover
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
- Anne Hutchinson
I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
- Robert Frost
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
- Gia Coppola
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone
- Ernest Hemingway
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
- Confucius
The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
- Confucius
Music is made out of nothing but some fairly simple rules. Yet it's true that no one made them up. The rules. The notes themselves amount to almost nothing. But why some particular arrangement of these notes should have such a profound effect on our emotions is a mystery beyond even the hope of comprehension. Music is not a language. it has no reference to anything other than itself
- Cormac McCarthy