It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
“A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants… — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when… — Ariane Mnouchkine Copy Share Image
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think… — John Hench Copy Share Image
It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
We were delighted to share the ceremony of our love and commitment. Let this be our destinyTo love, to live, to begin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The conduct of a new sedoretu is to some extent, and wisely, prescribed by custom and sanctioned by religion. The first night… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Grandfather Shi must have loved Ita Thao. His relatives were certainly making his last hours there memorable ones. Though the ceremony did… — Joshua Samuel Brown Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image