The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Every profane word Gray had ever heard, read, uttered, or invented spewed forth from his mouth.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it. — Robert Lowth Copy Share Image
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,'… — Florence L. Barclay Copy Share Image
I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
“One morning Profane woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep and decided on a whim to spend the day like a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“The skaa called Sazed holy, but at that moment he realized that he was the most profane of men. He was a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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