Religious Displays, as distinct from religious beliefs, are submissive acts performed towards dominant individuals called gods. The acts themselves include various forms of body-lowering, such as kneeling, bowing, kowtowing, salaaming and prostrating; also chanting and rituals of debasement and sacrifice; the offering of gifts to the gods and the making of symbolic gestures of allegiance. […]
Perform - Performance Quotes
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? (Henry IV)
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted to him to perform, therefore he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
