Ceremony Quotes - Page 11

• When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Friends, Real, Taken

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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• Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Dancer, Actors, World

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• The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

  Sean Durkin

  Religious, Prayer, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

  Joshua Ferris

  Mother, Father, Divorce

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• I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Order, Culture

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Catholic, Church, Comfort

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

  Keith O'Brien

  Jesus, Opposites, Simplicity

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• The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

  Giordano Bruno

  Law, Stupidity, World

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Earth, Our Relationship

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.49, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Scratches, Language, Holy

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• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  Victoria Wood

  People, Special, Treats

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• We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Sweet, Men

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• I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

  Ricky Whittle

  Beautiful, Beach, Sunset

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

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• I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Issues, Done, Way

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• My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Heart, Strings Attached

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

  F. Huegel

  Self, Temptation, Lines

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Funeral, Abstract

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

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• Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Technology, Nuclear, Pakistan

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