Formal Relationship Quotes

#1. Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close yet casual friendship.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. The formal relationship, enforced by the institution, is that one person's word means everything and the other's means almost nothing; one person can command the other to do just about anything, and refusal can result in total physical restraint.

Piper Kerman

#3. When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

Lynn Coady

#4. Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

Mario Cuomo

#5. The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.

Linda Hogan

#6. I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

Lincoln Chafee

#7. I never knew what to say."
"Really? You seem comfortable enough with words."
"I have a formal and aesthetic relationship to words.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#9. Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Harold S. Geneen

#10. There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#11. A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

Linus Torvalds

#12. The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

Frank Gehry

#13. Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

Jim Butcher

#14. In the next instance Graham claimed her lips in a demanding, yet gentle kiss

Lia Davis

#15. Never let a man know he has the upper hand in your relationship. At least not in the beginning. Never be the first one to say I love you, and until he makes a formal attempt at a commitment, always act like he is just one of the many guys you deal with.

Janice Jones

#16. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

Thomas Hardy