A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference. — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I… — Styles P Copy Share Image
So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled… — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is. — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our… — George Muller Copy Share Image
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding… — Douglas J. Penick Copy Share Image
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chickens or lambs waiting for eagles.” — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns. — Ricky Whittle Copy Share Image
Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
