Naming Ceremony Invitation Quotes

The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept. ~ Henry B. Eyring

You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it? ~ Bruce Chatwin

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. ~ William Shakespeare

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. ~ Beatrice Lillie

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. ~ George Gurdjieff

The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself - ever. ~ Bryant McGill

Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. ~ Rob Lowe

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. ~ William Wycherley

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception. ~ Richard Lerner

The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds. ~ Pawan Mishra

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. ~ Pablo Neruda

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body. ~ Michel De Montaigne

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher. ~ Liu Jingmin

All things are possible through invitation and love. ~ Bryant McGill

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe. ~ Okakura Kakuzo

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. ~ Lord Chesterfield

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes. ~ Danny Boyle

Funerals are all abstract ceremony. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear. ~ Bruce Lee

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. ~ Scott Adams

Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. ~ Brad Sherman

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. ~ Charlize Theron

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. ~ Libba Bray

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. ~ William Shakespeare

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. ~ Isabel Allende

The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization. ~ Bryant McGill

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it. ~ Graeme Le Saux

The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed. ~ John O'Donohue

Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect. ~ Del Suggs

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. ~ Hermann Maier

A commission is an invitation to fall in love. ~ Twyla Tharp

Sensuality is not a sexual invitation, it's a depth invitation. ~ Lebo Grand

I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind of discrimination. An invitation doesn't really mean that you're invited; it means that a whole lot of people aren't ~ Melinda Cross

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join. ~ Elbert Hubbard

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities. ~ Rachelle Doorley

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation. ~ Sophia Amoruso

Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you really here?
William: I received an invitation.
Nicholas: Not from me you didn't.
William: Of course not from you, brother. Parliament would go up in flames before I receive a social invitation from you. ~ Donna MacMeans

What's your name?'
'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly.
'You want me to name you?' he asked.
'People from the other side are very dull,' she sighed.
'Give yourself a name for me. I don't need naming for myself, do I? ~ Isobelle Carmody

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command ~ Ambrose Bierce

life is a big party Ensure that You have an invitation ~ Jan Jansen

Sadness is an invitation to God. ~ Kamand Kojouri

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation. ~ Kathleen Winsor

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Truth and ceremony are two things. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union. ~ Rebecca McClanahan

Each new day is an invitation to an adventure of your own making. ~ Steven Redhead

But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside. ~ Thomas Yellowtail

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.' ~ Jimmy Fallon

Ceremony is all backbone. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him. ~ Henry B. Eyring

It is true that an open door sends an invitation; but for the curious person, a closed door sends even a stronger invitation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We're forgetting each plant's proper naming,
Classifications we've learnt from reading;
We stop recalling the links and logic,
Accounts of the world's internal working,
And I wonder - do you hear strange music? ~ Michael Shindler

New York is full of people ... with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's not likely to end in any double-ring ceremony. ~ Joan Didion

As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, 'Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?' ~ Stella Young

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends. ~ Eve Ensler

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ~ Charles De Gaulle

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? ~ William Shakespeare

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. ~ Keith O'Brien

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. ~ Katherine Dunham

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside. ~ Emma Forrest

I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts. ~ Henry Reed

It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well. ~ Toba Beta

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint. ~ Walter Scott

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy" ~ David O. McKay

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it. ~ Ambrose Bierce

We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all. ~ David Whyte

Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well. ~ Steven Millhauser

It is a beautiful impulse to contain the infinite in the finite, to rest order from the chaos, to construct a foothold so we may climb towards higher truth. It is also a limiting one, for in naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves. ~ Maria Popova

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering. ~ Ishmael Reed

The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible. ~ Lafcadio Hearn

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want. ~ David Whyte

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do. ~ Terry Pratchett

An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation ... ~ Alice-Leone Moats

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. ~ Vera Wang

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith:
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show, and promise of their mettle. ~ William Shakespeare

The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term "method" must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity in women is by no means a merely cerebral process. In order to understand the implications of this process it is necessary to grasp the fundamental fact that women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our power to name ourselves, the world or God. The old naming was not the product of dialogue- a fact inadvertently admitted in the genesis story of Adam's naming the animals and the women. Women are now realizing that the universal imposing of names by men has been false because partial. That is, inadequate words have been taken as adequate. ~ Mary Daly

No known human group ... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species. ~ Theodosius Dobzhansky

The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen ... In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically? ~ Allen Ginsberg

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow. ~ Will Advise

People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate
especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest ... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity
and an obligation. ~ Warren Farrell

I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns. ~ Ricky Whittle

The major problem with the invitation now is precisely overfamiliarity. Familiarity breeds unfamiliarity - unsuspected unfamiliarity, and then contempt. People think they have heard the invitation. They think they have accepted it - or rejected it. But they have not. The difficulty today is to hear it at all. Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious. Written everywhere, we may think, how could the invitation be subtle, or deep? It looks like the other graffiti and even shows up in the same places. But that is part of the divine conspiracy. ~ Dallas Willard

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place. ~ May Sarton

Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. ~ Bob Goff

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament. ~ Peter Hollingworth

Naming the Cat

I called my cat 'mystery',
she ignored the name;
using some very cat-like disdain.
Waiting a while I named her again,
asking her spirit to share in the game.
Now more allowing to me she came;
still not releasing the cat-like disdain. ~ Leland Lewis

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together. ~ Beth Moore

THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. ~ Charles Eastman

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone? ~ Jesse Ball

Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it. ~ Eve Ensler

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do. ~ Elton John

There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. ~ Bob Goff

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights. ~ Ken Livingstone