Unspoken Rules Quotes:

You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

- Eva Longoria

source: "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

topic: Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Unspoken Rules, Unspoken

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

- Chris Noth

topic: Pride, Live Your Life, What If, Really Living, Unspoken Rules

There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

- Neal Shusterman

topic: Life, Fighting, Winning, Unspoken, Unspoken Rules

There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.

- Ryan Gosling

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Opportunity, Ideas, Two, Special To Me, Unspoken Rules

I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

- Mark Leibovich

topic: Thinking, Care, Welcome, Unspoken Rules

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

- Anne Roiphe

topic: Fighting, Artist, Thinking, Unspoken Rules

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

topic: Girl, Boys, Awkward, Verge, Unspoken

Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.

- Kathleen Hall Jamieson

topic: Power, Two, Crowds, Unspoken Rules