Rite Quotes

168 Rite quotes by 139 unique authors

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault… — James Lee Burke
These are used solely for Blood Rites. (Leo) Is that like special ed? (Susan) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important,… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much… — Jim Butcher
Well, Lord Debonair and Lady Lethal, if we can have a minute of your time, we do have a psycho to hunt. (Allen) (Jess glared… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast he could hardly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his… — Tessa Dare
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean,… — Stephen King
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to… — Robert Anton Wilson
For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that… — Karen Armstrong
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. — William Shakespeare
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite,… — C.S. Lewis
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude… — Pablo Neruda
It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and… — John Burroughs
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. — George Washington
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to… — Dan Millman
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… — Wyndham Lewis
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take… — Ram Dass
I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you,… — Toni Servillo
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan
Cinema was my rite of passage. — John Singleton

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