Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“moment, those are exactly the words that we will use to begin this ceremony: Tony, will you give yourself to Robin?” — Hallee Bridgeman Copy Share Image
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Rituals are like electrically powered transmitters sending stimulating sparks of electric current or inspirational feelings that connect us to our inner being… — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
“Rites and rituals open hearts and clear minds. They help us embody reverence and allow us to get in touch with our… — Ahriana Platten Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration… — Mike Pence 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
“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
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
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
“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
“ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but… — Simon Bird Copy Share Image
These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I don't like shopping, so I'll look online. I like going to the flea market at the Rose Bowl every once in… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are… — Hosokawa Tadaoki Copy Share Image
We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the… — Julie Roberts Copy Share Image
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The prenup needs to be drawn up months before the wedding, not days - it's not something you slap together and sign… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image