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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. -- Winston Churchill
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. -- Pete Townshend
Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time. -- Jay Duplass
Death is the least civilized rite of passage. -- Louise Erdrich
Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. -- Jenna Jameson
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. -- Bob Hope
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. -- Merlin Stone
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. -- George Washington
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. -- Chinua Achebe
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. -- Guru Nanak
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. -- Victor Hugo
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. -- Joseph Campbell
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, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual. -- C. S. Lewis
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years. -- Anne Tyler
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal. -- Plutarch
When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. -- Ambrose Bierce
To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form. -- James W. Sire
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule. -- Jean Piaget
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. -- Dan Millman
Cinema was my rite of passage. -- John Singleton
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. -- Steve Earle
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. -- Kenny Loggins
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. -- Gemma Ward
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. -- Heather Mills
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life. -- Sylvester McCoy
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. -- Danny Glover
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country. -- Mary Ellen Mark
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. -- Sylvester Stallone
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. -- Orlando Bloom
I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage. -- James Marsden
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. -- Olivia Williams
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 their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. -- Ram Dass
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it. -- DJ Qualls
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
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. -- George Gurdjieff
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. -- Drew Barrymore
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. -- Linda Sanchez
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul. -- Paul Weller
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. -- Penn Jillette
I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had. -- Joe Dempsie
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. -- Harvey Fierstein
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, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you. -- Toni Servillo
A fav'rite has no friend! -- Thomas Gray
Religion is more than rite and ritual. -- Yann Martel
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. -- Craig Brewer
Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite. -- Tanith Lee
Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. -- Julia Cameron
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. -- Craig Ferguson
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. -- Octavia Butler
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. -- Bob Seger
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. -- Winston Churchill
La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented. -- Georges Braque
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. -- Hank Nuwer
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. -- Barack Obama
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. -- Lao Tzu
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. -- Richard K. Morgan
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. -- Lao Tzu
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite. -- Carl Sandburg
O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship. -- Hilda Doolittle
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge -- John L. Parker Jr.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward. -- Joseph Campbell
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. -- Albert Camus
Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose. -- Bryant McGill
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. -- Jamake Highwater
No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity. -- William Shakespeare
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RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. -- Ambrose Bierce
We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. -- Johnny Rich
she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway? -- Janet Fitch
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. -- K. A. Applegate
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. -- Ambrose Bierce
He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. -- G.A. Aiken
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. -- William A. Henry III
To be the altar boy at the first Mass of the day was a sacred initiation rite. It was like being hazed at a fraternity, only more Catholic." -- Ian Morgan Cron
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp. -- Peter Morgan
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem. -- Richard Morris
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition. -- Richard Morris
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms. -- Bill Walsh
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship. -- W. H. Auden
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted. -- Sean Penn

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