An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July. — Ralph Kiner Copy Share Image
I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In great ceremony they entered the prison. They were never to be seen again.” — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man… — Charles Fox Parham Copy Share Image
Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting. — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were… — John Selden Copy Share Image
I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly… — William Cowper 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
Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously,… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government. — Confucius Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, That ceremony which makes more strange bedfellows than politics; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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