Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. Its a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
“Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Rituals are routines that force us to move faithfully even when we no longer feel like being faithful. Until our heart has… — Renita J. Weems Copy Share Image
Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship.… — Rennie Ellis Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. Philosophical gold… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think any belief system that says to a person, "I don't need Jesus because I have my ritual" is a problem. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I just really enjoy the ritual of going to work and playing, which is essentially what we do. We play pretend. Acting… — Bailey Chase Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought.” — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
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