Pastoral Resources

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

I like breaking the rules.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.