Celebration Quotes - Page 20

• These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Moving, Culture

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• She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Different, Thread, Ill

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Fascination, Bunk

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.104, Random House

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• He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

  Michael Pollan

  Healing, Cake, Chocolate

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.61, Penguin

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• The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

  William Stringfellow

  Christian, Practice, World

  William Stringfellow (1999). “A Private and Public Faith”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

  Bill Walton

  Teamwork, Believe, Grateful

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• Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

  Buddy Valastro

  Happy Birthday, Sweet, Memories

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• When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.

  Snoop Dogg

  Giving, Perfect, Clubs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Horror, Film

  "Nicolas Cage Exclusive Interview SEASON OF THE WITCH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

  Bjork

  Oxygen, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

  Helen Mirren

  Jubilee, Silver, Grumpy

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• The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.

  David Levithan

  Joy, Wire, Bottles

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.53, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Holiday, Church, Sacred

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.570, Dell

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• So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth, and swallowing it whole. “Then you get P for ‘Poor’ ” — Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration — “and D for ‘Dreadful.’ ” “And then T,” George reminded him. “T?” asked Hermione, looking appalled. “Even lower than a D? What on earth does that stand for?” “ ‘Troll,’ ” said George promptly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Swallowing, Mouths, Earth

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• Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

  Steven Erikson

  Diversity, Suffering, Doe

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.1125, Random House

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• Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are committed to the celebration of each other and their loved ones.

  Gay Hendricks

  Love Is, Genuine Love, Two

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• There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Husband, Bored, Annoyed

  Kerry Greenwood (2004). “Queen of the Flowers”, p.10, Allen & Unwin

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• Briefly, the nymphaeum glowed with a softer light, like a full moon. Piper smelled exotic spices and blooming roses. She heard distant music and happy voices talking and laughing. She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. 'What is that?' Jason asked nervously. Piper slipped her hand into his. 'The ghosts are dancing.

  Rick Riordan

  Memories, Party, Moon

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• Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

  Nora Roberts

  Home, Holiday, Cities

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• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Sex, Pleasure Love

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• The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Secret, Tears, Moscow

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• A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

  Jean Vanier

  Kindness, Heart, Competition

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press

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• My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Song, Moving

  "Come, Come, Yet Again Come". Book by Rajneesh, 1980.

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• No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Party, Long, Waiting

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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