When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing. James Carlos Blake
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
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Jodi Picoult
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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Alan Bennett
There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to...
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Elizabeth Scott
It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls...
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Shannon L. Alder
There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: there are no rules. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually...
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Shonda Rhimes
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He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.
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One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well, as many have discovered, you don't really know...
