first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of…

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

— Deborah Norville

Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend…

— Anonymous

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

— Isabella Rossellini

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

— Marya Mannes

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw

Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us,…

— Andre Aciman

“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's erect stance.…

— Henry Corbin

It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me.

— Hideo Kojima

Human bonding rituals often involve a great deal of talking, and dancing, and crying. -Worf

— Star Trek

I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…

— Walter Kirn

I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've…

— Anthony Lane

Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else.

— Dana Gould

The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer is one.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon