Rulebooks Quotes & Sayings

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know. — Sandra Bernhard

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late. — Brian Spellman

For years I have played the twenty-something lover. — James MacArthur

This is how it is now. This is my life. — Laura Moriarty

I wanted the Andy of Toy Story 3 to be right on the cusp, straddling childhood and adulthood ... I wanted to find this sweet spot where he had gotten tall and had clearly grown up but still retained many boyish qualities, including a boyish charm. — Lee Unkrich

A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.) — Sarah Lewis

Christian ethics is not a matter of discovering what's going on in the world and getting in tune with it. It isn't a matter of doing things to earn God's favor. It is not about trying to obey dusty rulebooks from long ago or far away. It is about practicing, in the present, the tunes we shall sing in God's new world. — N. T. Wright

Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you. — Kathryn Budig

[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject — Martin Luther

All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks. — Michel Houellebecq

If journeys came with rulebooks, he'd probably just disobeyed every word. — Heather Burch

I am more powerful than that disgustingly well-intenioned niece of mine!
Redd Heart — Frank Beddor