Quotes About Being Formal

#1. Fuck that!" My turn to drop the scroll-case as though it were hot. " ... your stewardness."
"'Highness' is the correct form of address when the steward is of noble birth ... if we're being formal, Jalan."
"Fuck that, your highness.

Mark Lawrence

#2. One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#3. A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

#4. I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

Rolf Harris

#5. If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. That life is most pleasant which is passed in ignorance.

Publilius Syrus

#8. White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

Jan Tschichold

#9. Neither formal education, desire, hard work, nor being a good person guarantees success... the most important key to success is self-motivation. And a consciously chosen vision of the future is a powerful aid to motivate yourself.

Phil Laut

#10. It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the mind has been stored with useful knowledge and strengthened by being used, the regulation of the behaviour may safely be left to its guidance without the aid of formal rules.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#11. My friend Alice Sebold likes to talk about "getting down in the pit and loving somebody." She has in mind the dirt that love inevitably splatters on the mirror of our self-regard.

Jonathan Franzen

#12. Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

Shunryu Suzuki

#13. In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Larry Niven

#14. It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

Buck Williams

#15. At the end of the day, love is not perfect. It doesn't protect us or save us from the darkness surrounding our lives. Instead, it is the light that shines through to help us. Without it, we would be consumed by the darkness.

K.A. Robinson

#16. I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

J.R. Rim

#17. Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

E.B. White

#18. Doesn't being over-familiar put you at a disadvantage? A more formal way of speaking doesn't just mean you're being polite, it's also a way of protecting yourself.

Mihail Sebastian

#19. The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. It may be, too, that the task Heidegger sets for himself in Being and Time is in fact impossible. Heidegger's abandonment of the project one-third of the way through may itself be a formal indication of the impossibility of providing adequate philosophical terms for life as we live it.

S.J. McGrath

#21. Are "people in the world", I wonder, creatures that spend their whole lives greeting each other in stiff, formal patterns, being cautious about each other, then growing tired of each other? I hate meeting people.

Osamu Dazai

#22. Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Miguel De Unamuno

#23. By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Theodor Adorno

#24. I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely." "I don't think that last one is a formal title," I said. "It should be.

Amanda Hocking

#25. That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle

#27. My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Ann Druyan

#28. The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

Mason Cooley

#29. I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#30. Improvement in one area often adversely affects another area, and striving for perfection in one may lead to failure in another.

Stephen F. Rosenstiel

#31. I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#32. I love the way people dress at the races. I love people dressed to the nines during the day. That formal kind of daywear doesn't really exist anymore except at the races. Also I love the tuffs and the working classes being so hand in glove and relying on each other to make the thing happen.

Bella Freud