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
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison 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
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us… — Gerhard Tersteegen 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
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Arms are instruments of ill omen… When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova 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
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly… — Mario Vargas Llosa 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 sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
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