Early Ritual Hymn Quotes & Sayings

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. — Sydney Smith

The history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher. — Catharine Beecher

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing. — Gregory Harrison

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change. — Fred Polak

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less ... — Kevin O'Leary

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. — Louise Wilder

Oh , kinda playing things by ear — Norman Mailer

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. — Kate Williams

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men. — Gene Tierney

do that to a future hero?" She — Susan Mallery

In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing with thy bull-foot, come,
Noble Bull, Noble Bull — Plutarch

It was always the same for her when she arrived to meet the body. After she unbuckled her seat belt, after she pulled a stick pen from the rubber band on the sun visor, after her long fingers brushed her hip to feel the comfort of her service piece, what she always did was pause. Not long. Just the length of a slow deep breath. That's all it took for her to remember the one thing she will never forget. Another body waited. She drew the breath. And when she could feel the raw edges of the hole that had been blown in her life, Detective Nikki Heat was ready. She opened the car door and went to work ... Heat could have made it easier on herself by parking closer, but this was another of her rituals: the walk up. Every crime scene was a flavor of chaos, and these two hundred feet afforded the detective her only chance to fill the clean slate with her own impressions. — Richard Castle

I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it. — Haruki Murakami

All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable. — Philip Pullman

The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002. — Jenny Shipley