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Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

Don't live in the past - you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now - it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Every old poem is sacred.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions of what is sacred and what is profane. When we assume the mind-set that everything is ultimately divine, though sometimes more disguised than others, then we can see that all of our thoughts, impulses, and desires arise from and can bring us back to awareness of the sacred.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.