Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what… — Ella Baker
It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal. — Elton John
The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities… — Valerie Jarrett
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way… — Sebastiao Salgado
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not… — Philip Emeagwali
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the… — Francis Schaeffer
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. — Charles Spurgeon
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process… — Oliver Heaviside
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank. — Simon Sinek
It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not,… — B. B. Warfield
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each… — Jane Jacobs
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,… — A.J. Ayer
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the… — Mark Hall
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came… — David Carson
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest… — Henry Ward Beecher
A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but… — Harold Jeffreys
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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