Formality Quotes - Page 3

• La mayoría de la gente cree, cuando es joven, que va a llegar a la cima del mundo que ha elegido, y que el ascenso es sólo una formalidad. Sin esa fe, supongo, quizá nunca empezarían. En algún punto del camino levantan la vista hacia la cima y saben que no van a alcanzarla; y la felicidad entonces es mirar hacia abajo y disfrutar de la vista que tienen, no envidiar la que no tienen.

  Dick Francis

  Ojo, Pensamiento, Vistas

  Dick Francis (2005). "Reflex", p.18, Penguin

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Rights, Library

  "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.

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• Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no more messing around with legislatures, presidents, or other bothersome formalities. When MDMA (ecstasy) was made illegal in 1986, no elected official voted on that. It was done "in house." People are now in jail because they did something that an administrator declared was wrong.

  Peter McWilliams

  Law, Jail, People

  Peter McWilliams (1996). "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country", Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Carácter, Hombres, Juzgar

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• Resucitar con Cristo significa no sólo que uno tiene elección y que puede vivir según una ley superior -la ley de la gracia y del amor-, sino que debe hacerlo. La primera obligación del cristiano es mantener su libertad de todas las supersticiones, de todos los tabúes ciegos y formalidades religiosas, de hecho de todas las formas vacías de legalismo.

  Thomas Merton

  Cristiano, religioso, mezquino

  Thomas Merton (1975). "Ha resucitado", Tabor Pub

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• Escuchaba a King Oliver y a Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... Escuchaba todo lo que podía que viniera de ese lugar que llaman blues pero que, formalmente, no es necesariamente blues.

  Eric Clapton

  Kings, Jelly, Monk

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• Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.

  Mas Oyama

  Mean, Comfort, Selfless

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• The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.

  Peter Mayle

  Taken, Years, Feelings

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• To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Quality, Cost

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• Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Heart, Love Is

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• Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.

  William J. Critchlow, Jr.

  Father, Church, Missionary

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• Los oficiales no pegan a los hombres; los oficiales y los hombres reciben el mismo trato. Los soldados son libres de reunirse y expresarse. Se han suprimido las formalidades triviales y las cuentas están abiertas a la inspección de todos.

  Mao Zedong

  Men, Speaks Out, Soldier

  Mao Zedong (2017). "Citas del Presidente Mao Tse-tung (El pequeño libro rojo) y otras obras", p.84, Lulu.com.

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• The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long Ago, Months, Week

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.

  Tristan Perich

  Pensar, Largo, Comprender

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

  David Adjaye

  New York, Able, Use

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Los principios cristianos sobre los que se fundó principalmente el país rara vez se consultan si no es para formalidades de estado, burlas, o para establecer contrastes en la elaboración de nuevas leyes.

  H. Wayne House

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• [To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

  John D. MacDonald

  Sunset, Religion, Looks

  John D MacDonald (2013). “Travis McGee: Books 4-6: Introduction by Lee Child”, p.251, Random House

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• Probablemente percibí la formalidad seria de las ceremonias y sentí lo que otros sentían entonces. En retrospectiva, creo que abrió un enorme agujero en mi psique. En el proceso de crear arte, puede que intentara llenar ese agujero, o reducir su profundidad, o hacer que se sintiera menos hueco. Creo que hacer arte podría haberme ayudado a partir de ese momento.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Arte, Pensar, Crear

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Las piezas móviles en contacto por frotamiento necesitan lubricación para evitar un desgaste excesivo. Los honoríficos y la cortesía formal proporcionan lubricación cuando las personas se rozan. A menudo, los más jóvenes, los que no han viajado, los ingenuos y los sofisticados deploran estas formalidades por considerarlas "vacías", "sin sentido" o "deshonestas", y desdeñan utilizarlas. Por muy "puros" que sean sus motivos, echan arena en una maquinaria que, en el mejor de los casos, no funciona demasiado bien.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Movimiento, Personas, Juntos

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• Creo que la muerte de Bobby Kennedy fue, en muchos sentidos, la muerte de la decencia en Estados Unidos. Creo que fue la muerte de los modales y la formalidad, la muerte de la poesía y la muerte de un sueño.

  Emilio Estevez

  Soñar, Creer, Pensar

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• Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

  Susan Sontag

  School, Assessment, Judging

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Power to the Democrats is an entitlement, elections are a formality, and they should never lose. And especially to somebody like Donald Trump, who they think is a reprobate and a horrible guy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Guy, Election

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Queens, Thinking, People

  "Queen Rania discusses her new book "The Sandwich Swap" with Oprah". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.queenrania.jo. April 23, 2010.

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• In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

  Noah Emmerich

  Mean, Tuxedos, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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