Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It… — Isadora Duncan 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
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
The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it… No amount of rites, rituals,… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his… — Thomas J. Paprocki 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
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
I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper… — Michel de Montaigne 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
“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
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I do look at fashion, and I love going to Opening Ceremony and seeing what they have. Seeing what Jeremy Scott is… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other...… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the… — Black Elk 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
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
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power… — Duong Van Minh Copy Share Image
Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image