I'm sleepin with success rite now.

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place…

— Rabindranath Tagore

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the…

— Aeschylus

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their…

— Al-Maʿarri

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good…

— Orlando Bloom

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable,…

— Peter Morgan

According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as…

— Edith Starr Miller

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be…

— Winston Churchill

It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the kingdom of…

— Mark E. Petersen

In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama…

— Evo Morales

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's…

— Shailene Woodley

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through…

— Pablo Neruda

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle…

— Hamza Yusuf

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

— Lance Henriksen