Profanation Quotes

#1. geniza is that these works, like people, are living things, possessing an element of the sacred about them - and therefore when they "die," or become worn out, they must be honored and protected from profanation.

Adina Hoffman

#2. since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.

Marcel Proust

#3. Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

William Shakespeare

#4. Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Marquis De Sade

#6. In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears divinity, to any others profanation.

William Shakespeare

#8. Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

Camille Paglia

#9. To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

Adolf Hitler

#11. True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

#12. To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

Richard Branson

#13. Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

Jerry Seinfeld

#14. Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.

Charles Darwin

#15. Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#16. A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Sarah Hall

#17. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Mariano Rivera

#18. I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

George Eads

#19. I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

#20. Because of the power of neuroplasticity, you can, in fact, reframe your world and rewire your brain so that you are more objective. You have the power to see things as they are so that you can respond thoughtfully, deliberately, and effectively to everything you experience.

Elizabeth Thornton

#21. Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, "Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix," they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.

Kate Long