I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up.… — Trey Burke Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
People feel that you'll never be able to recreate the birthplace of a song that has, at its core, the hardship of… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth.… — William Landay Copy Share Image
My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was… — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa,… — Todd G. Buchholz Copy Share Image
In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a ritual which should be written (o cut down on divorces) -- by adding a line to the groom's questions… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
