Rules are for people with the luxury of time.
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Renee Carlino
This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective. Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.
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Juliana Barbassa
Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Catherynne M. Valente
If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Charles Dickens
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.
She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched...
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn...
AlmondineTo her, the scent and the memory of him were one. Where it lay strongest, the distant past came to her as if that morning: Taking a dead sparrow from her jaws, before she knew to hide such things. Guiding her to the floor, bending...
It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.
