Ritual Quotes · Page 4

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

— Brigitte Bardot

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

— Jennifer Lee

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

— Rae Armantrout

“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.”

— William Shakespeare

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.

— Laozi

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

— Meister Eckhart

“You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.”

— Rachel Klein

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs…

— Darrell Wallace Jr

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

— Richard Dean Anderson

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

— Starhawk

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a…

— Vera Nazarian

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely,…

— John Travolta

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in…

— Madame de Stael

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.

— Erving Goffman

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question…

— Anne Sexton

I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is…

— Roma Downey

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

My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam…

— Louis Farrakhan

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,…

— Rajneesh

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

MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a ritual which should be written (o cut down on divorces) -- by adding a line to the groom's questions…

— Nikhil Saluja

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the…

— Bernard Berenson

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was…

— Ellen Glasgow

Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. It brings divine energies down…

— Richard Smoley

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious…

— Idries Shah

It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians…

— Anita Rau Badami

“Your ritual needs to ensure your brain gets the support it needs to keep operating at a high level of depth. For…

— Cal Newport

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes…

— Alexander McCall Smith

In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build…

— Paul Feyerabend

“ten ancient yet supremely effective rituals”

— Robin S. Sharma

I fart. My backstage ritual is flatulence.

— Summer Walker

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

— Lexa Doig

“The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.”

— Nicholas Mosley

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

— H. G. Wells

“fourth ritual is known as the Ritual of Abundant Knowledge.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

— Ronald Knox