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Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.
— Jonathan Stroud
With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork.
— Christopher Hitchens
The dance ritual never ended, The small children just sat down one by one as they got tired.
— Dorothy Bryant
Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.
— Lois Kelly
The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.
— Robin S. Sharma
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
— Meister Eckhart
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
— Beverly Sills
The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.
— William Shakespeare
Magick is an art; using reality and the world as its canvas.
— Dacha Avelin
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
— Erich Fromm
You get home okay or are you deep in the mountains recovering from a ceremonial male bonding ritual after killing a bear?
— Kristen Ashley
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
— Rita Mae Brown
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals
— Robert Downey Jr.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
— Sarah Addison Allen
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
— Algernon Blackwood
find. At the time, I thought Lewis was a bit hung up on ritual (sacramentalism), but I overlooked this fault
— David B. Currie
One must observe the proper rites.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When I arrived, he was in the kitchen, in the middle of his Sunday morning ritual of cleaning his cleaning supplies.
— Lee Goldberg
The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.
— Angela Carter
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.
— Richard Dean Anderson
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
— E. M. Broner
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
— Norman O. Brown
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
— Ramakrishna
Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
— Neil Gaiman
I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
— Clarice Lispector
Tantrics seek oneness with the universe through eating meat, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, dancing,
and ritual sexual intercourse. — Marvin Harris
Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Fourth ritual is known as the Ritual of Abundant Knowledge.
— Robin S. Sharma
Life is a ritual of loveLife is a ritual of union, and
Life is a dance of the divine — Vishwas Chavan
Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
— Diana Gabaldon
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
Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.
— Jared Diamond
I do love the idea of ritual.
— Sarah Silverman
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.
— Shirley Jackson
She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.
— Sherry Turkle
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
— R.D. Laing
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
— Walter Benjamin
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music.
— Robin S. Sharma
We see that that ritual of reading every evening at the end of the bed when they were so littleset time, set gestures
was like a prayer. — Daniel Pennac
Second ritual. This is the Ritual of Physicality.
— Robin S. Sharma
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.
— Edmundo Desnoes
Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.
— Gabriel Brunsdon
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.
— Peter Redgrove
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
— Rose Leslie
He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.
— Josephin Peladan
When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.
— Darrell Wallace Jr.
The function of ritual ... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.
— James Norwood Pratt
We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.
— Maggie Nelson
Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.
— Eileen Wilks
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual ... It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.
— Ted Andrews
In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.
— Michael Pollan
Ritual numbs the brain. Repetition is grass for sheep.
— Karen Marie Moning
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
— Jonathan Kozol
The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.
— George R R Martin
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
— Miller Williams
she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.
— Noam Chomsky
First strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.
— Robin S. Sharma
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
— Christina Baldwin
If it's God you're worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn't keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.
— Diane Samuels
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
— Ahmet Zappa
I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.
— Alexei Navalny
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
— Sylvia Plath
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
— Madame De Stael
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
— Richard Leakey
Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
— Dominick Dunne