Top 907 Rite Of Passage Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was 'The Rite of Spring.' That's what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it.

Final passage of the American Rescue Plan is a game changer for Connecticut and the entire nation.

According to Miller, Pharisee Judaism is not a religion at all, but a secret society posing as a religion, a "sect with Judaism as a rite." She cites Moses Mendelssohn who wrote "Judaism is not a religion but a Law religionized."

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

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.

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Love with writing began from school days itself and with passage of time my bond with it went on becoming stronger.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.