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445 Ritual quotes by 380 unique authors

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of… — Jamake Highwater
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and… — Xunzi
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme… — Aleister Crowley
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of… — Louise Brown
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This… — Walter Benjamin
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven;… — Rick Warren
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is… — Anandmurti Gurumaa
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words… — Oliver Burkeman
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship. — Abraham Verghese
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals — Doreen Valiente
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each… — Benjamin Hoff
When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. — Muriel Barbery
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals,… — Unknown Author
You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the… — Simon Van Booy
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for… — Betsy Lerner
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized… — Bernard Berenson
Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese,… — Hugh Laurie
Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic,… — Robert McKee
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in. — Ariane Mnouchkine
In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually… — Ozwald Boateng
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. — Starhawk

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