The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

I think a lot of this is about traditions.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

They’ve always had a great tradition. It’s great to be a part of something like that. I think it’s a town, a community and a school that wants to get back to it.

Sufism is experiential

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

Until we put off the garment of law and tradition and put on that of relationship and grace, we’ll be living under the bondage of religion

Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.

I’m offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that’s all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it’s not really that intense or even that serious, but...

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it’s damn good for you.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago...

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.

The order never varies. Two slices of bread-and-butter each, and China tea. What a hide-bound couple we must seem, clinging to custom because we did so in England. Here, on this clean balcony, white and...

not” in their destiny.

The church’s theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it...

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Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere – everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we’re all living in different worlds because we’re on different continents.

The believer is not a slave to fashion.

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They’re just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.

We have to remember tradition is great as long as it doesn’t hold back progress.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people’s religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

He was instrumental in building the All Blacks tradition. We’re pleased for the chance to pay our respects

They beat us, but we also beat them (earlier this season). I like to call us the hub of junior girls golf. I think the fact we have St. Clair Country Club close, and a...

Tradition is the prison where change is detained… To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement “this is how we do it”! Yes, that was how it...

The Dolly’s around here can’t be seen to coddle a snitch’s family — that’s the always been our way. We’re old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby...

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

We’re going out to win, just to put Alabama back on top. To get our respect back at the University of Alabama. I think a lot of people have forgotten about Alabama football and the...

The would-be students wish to transcend books.But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books...

Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into the church and its unique story and language. Worship should be...

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn’t get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves...

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It’s just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we...

We’re clearly delighted to be in the NCAA tournament. We’ve played Rutgers before and we know their history and tradition, but we have our own history and tradition.

…when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. ‘The bird that would soar above the level plain of...

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.