Ceremonial Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but…
— Philip Sidney
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
— H.G. Wells
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness.…
— Camille Paglia
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Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament…
— George Gillespie
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
— Franz Boas
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on…
— Erving Goffman
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
— Jamake Highwater
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends…
— David Abram
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Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and…
— Arundhati Roy
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Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are…
— Dominique de Menil
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
— J L Austin
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for…
— Quentin Bryce
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The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
— Ugo Betti
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Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers…
— Jean Genet
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There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
— Hayley Atwell
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but…
— Josiah Strong
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I want a military funeral when I die—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Who Wrote These Ceremonial Quotes
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