Ally Carter Quotes

I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Today there's law and order in everything. You can't beat anybody for nothing. If you do beat anyone, it's got to be for the sake of order.

The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.

I follow the roles.

The rules are there for a reason.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

The laws of this world are for children.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?

Everybody knows if you have the rules, you need to follow the rules and do exactly what you need to do.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.