In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
Come on, Forney. ' Novalee, it's a parasite. ' But it's a tradition. ' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.
For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.
He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.
There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.
I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.
So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.
I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.
The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.