Ceremonial Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

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
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H.G. Wells
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
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
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom — Franz Boas
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
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater
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
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch
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
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
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
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
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. — Ugo Betti
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
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
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
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
I want a military funeral when I dieÂ—the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a… — Kurt Vonnegut
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

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