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Ceremony Quotes

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.
Kurt Vonnegut

Authors on Ceremony Quotes: Ambrose Bierce Ralph Waldo Emerson Lenny Kravitz G. I. Gurdjieff Christian Nestell Bovee Kurt Vonnegut Thomas Chandler Haliburton Emily Yoffe Jim Morrison Anna Quindlen Ira Glasser Chuck Palahniuk Richard Lerner Elliott Masie Jimmy Carter William Butler Yeats Floyd Red Crow Westerman Cormac McCarthy Sherman Alexie Baruch Spinoza Measha Brueggergosman William Shakespeare Isaac D'Israeli Blaise Pascal Ridley Pearson Beatrice Lillie Mervyn Peake William Wycherley E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Marcus Aurelius Alfred Edersheim Stanislav Grof Charlize Theron
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
G. I. Gurdjieff

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If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place
Floyd Red Crow Westerman

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

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
Ambrose Bierce

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Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...
Jim Morrison

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Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.
Lenny Kravitz

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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie

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I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
Charlize Theron

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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.
Baruch Spinoza

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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser

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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
Alfred Edersheim

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I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
Stanislav Grof

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Ceremony is all backbone.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Blaise Pascal

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Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.
Jimmy Carter

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There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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Truth and ceremony are two things.
Marcus Aurelius

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True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.
Ridley Pearson

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Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Ambrose Bierce

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Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.
Lord Chesterfield

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I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.
Measha Brueggergosman

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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
Emily Yoffe

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For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
Anna Quindlen

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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
Cormac McCarthy

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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
William Butler Yeats

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AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.
Richard Lerner

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The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
William Shakespeare

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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley

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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Isaac D'Israeli

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It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
Mervyn Peake

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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
Chuck Palahniuk

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Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
Elliott Masie

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson