Formalized Rules Quotes & Sayings

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago. — Alice Rivlin

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark

But now it is time to look ahead, not behind. — Kristin Hannah

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before. — Martha Stewart

Now, even when I make an outfit for myself, I wonder what other people will think. The truth is that I secretly love what seems to be my own individuality, and I hope I always will, but fully embodying it is another matter. I always want everyone to think I am a good girl. Whenever I am around a lot of people, it is amazing how obsequious I can be. I fib and chatter away, saying things I don't want to or mean in any way. I feel like it is to my advantage to do so. I hate it. I hope for a revolution in ethics and morals. Then, my obsequiousness and this need to plod through life according to others' expectations would simply dissolve. Oh, — Osamu Dazai

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others. — Lynn Coady

Sex is so much more in the mind than in the body. — Sharon Stone

No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life. — Thomas Malthus