Formalizing Quotes

#1. In the Philippines, formalizing home ownership was until recently a 168-step process involving fifty-three public and private agencies and taking between thirteen and twenty-five years.

Niall Ferguson

#2. Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Michael Leunig

#3. The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors.

Stephen A. Douglas

#5. I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.

Richard Rainwater

#6. Happiness is a fortress.

Fuminori Nakamura

#7. Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments.

Osho

#8. If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#9. Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow ... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

Fred Thompson

#10. Just add value to what you're offering if you really want to win new business, but don't reduce your price.

Carlos Castillo

#11. Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

Diego Della Valle

#12. Luka had a kind smile and the most beautiful dark-brown eyes. But it was Luka's upper left Iris smudged with a small splash of blue that made our mothers think we were destined to be. Mama said God placed a piece of my eye within his so we would always know we shared one soul.

Tillie Cole

#13. The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

Jim George