We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with… — Edith Starr Miller Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
