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
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
Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness. — Stanislav Grof 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
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber 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
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
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated,… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion… — Robert D. McFadden Copy Share Image
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him.… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano 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
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin 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
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child,… — Elizabeth Berg 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
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
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon. — Stephen King 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
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
![“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the…” quote by Peter Enns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4f/peter-enns-28232_church_the-lord-s-supper-teaches-that-rituals-a_787566.jpg)
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