“Ritual may be vital to reaction, but it is also the life blood of revolution.” — David I. Kertzer Copy Share Image
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking.… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
You could also say that a precious brand often has rituals associated with it. They reinforce the specialness of the brand. And… — Andrew Doyle Copy Share Image
Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have an elaborate wind-down ritual, which combines reading, ESPN, movies, and jamming the blues on my keyboard. There's still a part… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple, authentic and refined sensations,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet,… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world.… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
“The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to simple,authentic and refined sensations, a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church? — Chuck Panozzo Copy Share Image
I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
