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  • Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

    Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.26, Knopf
  • That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

    Track   Hip Hop   Hips  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be broken. If broken, the rules of forgiveness leading to re-establishment are equally of air and iron. I learn these rules with rather less ease than my contemporaries because, in the back streets of my being, a duel is developing and increasing in fervour between my instinct which knows why something is so, and my hen-pecking intelligence which wishes to analyse why something is so.

    Art   Air   Iron  
    Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). “Hal Porter”, Univ of Queensland Pr
  • Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

    Music   Stars   Quality  
    "MPD Opens Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward 4/16". www.broadwayworld.com. April 16, 2009.
  • This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

    Real   Broken   Want  
  • ,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

  • Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

  • Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

    "An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales". Book by George Akerlof, October 26, 1984.
  • It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.

  • When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

  • This place is full of unwritten rules.

    Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.64, Faber & Faber
  • There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

    Wall   Saving   Investing  
    Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
  • One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

    Funny   Success   Giving  
  • These are party-sanctioned debates. This is a presidential election, you show up at the debates. These are the rules. We have a series of unwritten rules of how campaigns are run, and everybody has followed those rules consistently over the decades. And no one has really even seriously thought about breaking them.

    "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.
  • There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

    Music   Running   Kind  
  • Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

  • 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 know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

    Girl   School   Mean  
    Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
  • Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

    Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
  • It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

    Annoyed   Want   Mates  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

    Girl   Boys   Expression  
  • There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.

    Loss   Golf   Winning  
  • Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

    "Women: How to Thrive in Financial Services" by Skiddy von Stade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.
  • There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

    "Robert Carlyle on California Solo, American vs. British TV, and the appeal of fairy tales". interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 20, 2012.
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