Quotes About Observance

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

is common knowledge that many of the Christmas traditions we observe today come from the Victorians. Dickens solidified and immortalized the image of a perfect family Christmas—much of which the English had adopted from the Germans via Prince Albert

Murió porque el pueblo no insistió en que las leyes fueran observadas, se hiciera justicia y se respetara la Constitución. Sin embargo, sigue hablando de leyes, a pesar de lo que Aristóteles dijo de las repúblicas, que se convierten en democracias y degeneran en despotismos.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Why bother to have a technical term for a religious ritual?

Just as the observance of divine worship is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of divine worship is the cause of their ruin, because where fear of God is lacking, that kingdom must either come to ruin or be sustained through fear of a prince who makes up for the shortcomings in its religion.

Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others...

The holy book in the longest continuous use—the Talmud—commands the observant one to thank his maker every day that he was not born a woman.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can always be relied upon to do. When I go to the mosque, I take off my shoes. When I go to the synagogue, I cover my head. I once even observed the etiquette of an ashram in India, though this was a trial to me.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.

Nothing is so catching as example.

Well, you must rest, later. You need to be refreshed to greet the Bride Shabbat." She smiled. For a husband and wife to make love on the Sabbath was a commandment, and it was one requirement of the faith that both of them observed with joy.

Champions of this legend are apt to try to reassimilate knowing how to knowing that by arguing that intelligent performance involves the observance of rules, or the application of criteria.

The rules that he observes have become his way of thinking, when he is taking care; they are not external rubrics with which he has to square his thoughts.

None of the women in the women were eating in the daytime, unless they were pregnant or working, because they were observing the Muslim fast.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

Once a week, beginning at sunset on Friday and until sunset on Saturday, the family had to pause. A Jewish merchant had explained the Sabbath to Agios already, back in Egypt. No devout Hebrew could work or travel on that day. If they were near a temple, the family went there. If no temple was available, they prayed where they were. When

The persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so." They would thus act as if they were always being watched, even if they weren't.

I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.

It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.