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Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness. -- Baruch Spinoza
Ceremonies are the outworks of manners. -- Lord Chesterfield
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government. -- Confucius
For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. -- C. S. Lewis
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well. -- Jennifer Granholm
Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming. -- Styles P
I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition. -- Michael Schultz
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. -- Thomas Browne
The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all the characters in the third person. But, he is a really congenial... just a good stand-up guy, who happens to be Pakistani-American. He's been here for years. -- Sarah Jones
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. -- Bob Dylan
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. -- Sherman Alexie
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. -- Zubin Mehta
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Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. -- Alfred Day Hershey
Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith. -- George Muller
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth. -- Dennis Banks
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. -- Zhuangzi
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. -- Robert Jackson
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism. -- David Icke
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. -- Charles Caleb Colton
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. -- Ice T
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc. -- John Hench
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. -- Criss Angel
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. -- Iris Chang
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
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 that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. -- Stockwell Day
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other. -- James Howard Kunstler
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. -- Jimmy Carter
I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game. -- Jerry Rice
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship. -- Alice Morse Earle
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo. -- Jonathan Pryce
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. -- Paul Martin
I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. -- Damien Chazelle
The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July. -- Ralph Kiner
My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. -- Eric Balfour
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place -- Floyd Red Crow Westerman
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. -- Cormac McCarthy
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies. -- Stanislav Grof
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. -- Giordano Bruno
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. -- George C. Scott
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. -- Jelly Roll Morton
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. -- Orrin Hatch
In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth. -- Scott Cunningham
I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. -- Marco Pierre White
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. -- Annette Bening
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. -- Sean Durkin
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. -- Alfred Day Hershey
Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. -- David Letterman
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
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. -- John Milton
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. -- Arthur Smith
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies. -- Bitsie Tulloch
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. -- Vincent Canby
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies. -- Lawrence Durrell
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup. -- Ingrid Michaelson
I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music. -- Giuseppe Verdi
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies! -- Abraham Cowley
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul. -- Iyanla Vanzant
What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies? -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man. -- Amy Vanderbilt
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies. -- Paz Vega
It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me. -- Greg Brown
If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies. -- Torae
Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end. -- Paule Marshall
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. -- Francis Bacon
I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me. -- Picabo Street
The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel. -- Pope Benedict XIV
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. -- Robert H. Jackson
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
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion. -- Suzanne Collins
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. -- Samuel Johnson
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story. -- Adam Beach
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
When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that. -- Mike Harding
I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.' -- Artie Lange

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