Observance Quotes

A custom / More honored in the breach than the observance.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

The king is from God, the law from the king.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

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.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that inspire me to pass me by.

A safe-conduct or passport contains a pledge of the public faith, that it shall be duly respected, and the observance of this duty is essential to the character of the government which grants it.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

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

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

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.

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.

If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

People never notice anything.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.