13 Ceremonial Quotes for You to Enjoy

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way. Dalai Lama

Way Carried Would Some Remained Had Occupation Without Role Chinese Ceremonial Even Orthodox

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. Jules Verne

Better Gun Pedestrian Back Rank Indian Simplest Prince Stick His Hand Than Which Far Ceremonial Shoulder Requires Travelling

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. Lewis Thomas

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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

Life Good Loyalty People Grace Impossible Seriously Few Good Life Some Touched Rational Wished Most Without Traditional Passions Affectionate Few People Form Which Ceremonial Ceremonies Ever Desire

A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic. Russell Smith

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. Gus Van Sant

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry. Tony Harrison

Family Me Speak Try Made Those Poetry Most Coming Very Articulation Inarticulate Themselves Ceremonial Created Who Express Need

Arca means 'box' or 'wooden' in very old Spanish. It's a ceremonial container where you store jewelry or valuables, an empty space that can become pregnant with whatever music or meaning I give to it. Arca

I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins. John Fusco

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. Albert Murray

Survival Dance Embrace More Joint Also Always Context Been Ballroom Represent Human Which Ceremonial Speaking Human Species Species Thing

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. J. L. Austin

Character General Ritual Conventional Which Heir Ceremonial Ill Acts