Rule-Bending Quotes

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

What's the Constitution between friends?

Whether it's a speeding ticket or whatever it might be, some of us are trying to get an edge some way or another in life.

Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.

I didn't do anything with the thought that I want to go against society or bend any rules.

America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules.

People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

I do like artfully breaking rules.

Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred well-placed business men decide to do it.

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

I did a lot of mischief while I was a little boy, and I continue to do it now that I am President.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

All kings of England had ever, in cases of necessity or expediency, been accustomed, at intervals, to elude them [the laws.]