Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up.… — Trey Burke Copy Share Image
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how each one of us sees ourselves in the band, but we're being part of this ritual of identity… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a ritual which should be written (o cut down on divorces) -- by adding a line to the groom's questions… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
In Hong Kong, Dallas, or at home —and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves in Cafe Tacvba as representatives. When we go and make new material, we feel that our creations… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional -… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
