That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate. — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I've never met anybody who enjoys every moment of making a movie as much as Pierce Brosnan. He doesn't stress out too… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how… — Frank Pittman 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
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build… — Paul Feyerabend 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'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Copy Share Image
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home. — Richard Dean Anderson Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image