Observance Quotes

• Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

  Brandon Boyd

  Artist, Interest, Relevant

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• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Historical, Liberty

  "McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 1, 1943.

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• But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

  Denis Diderot

  Divorce, Population, Literature

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

  George Crabbe

  House, Pay, Praise

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.188

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• I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Lines, Path, Force

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• What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

  John Marshall

  Justice, Democracy, Adherence

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• It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Progress, Individual, Humans

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• Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Special, Acting, Suits

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Mean

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• Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Responsibility, Government

  "Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence". en.wikisource.org. July 05, 1926.

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• All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Integrity, Law

  Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi, September 30, 1962.

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• There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Guilt, Important

  Winston Churchill (2015). “My African Journey”, p.42, Richard Clay & Sons

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• Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Virtue, Lord

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• Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vices, Degrees, May

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.381, Oxford Paperbacks

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• An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Real, Inward, Ceremony

  Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80

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• Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Life, Soul, Suffering

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• Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teaching, Practice, Community

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• These are only hints and guesses,
  Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
  Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.

  T. S. Eliot

  Prayer, Discipline, Hints

  "The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems".

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• There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

  Dave Eggers

  Lying, Heart, Simple

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.297, Vintage

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• Procrastination, as it may be applied to Gospel principles, is the thief of eternal life - which is life in the presence of the Father and the Son. There are many among us, even members of the Church, who feel that there is no need for haste in the observance of Gospel principles and the keeping of the commandments.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Procrastination, Son

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• There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Morality

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• When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.350, Kregel Academic

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