Quotes About Ritual

Augustus' body was laid on a pyre in the ustrinum, or crematorium, next to the mausoleum.

Religion was about ritual rather than belief.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

I never leave the house without putting on my lipstick.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

I drink at least a couple of espressos every day and love the flavor of coffee.

For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

I always have at least 10 index cards with me every time I watch college football games on Saturdays.

As a footballer you're so in a routine, and you do the same things every day.

Even if I wake up at 12:30 in the afternoon or something like that late I have to have eggs for breakfast. I don't know, it just makes me feel good and gets me going for the day.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I love seeing people getting all their frustrations out for the week.

A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

Any suggestion that what is offered in that marketplace should at least be an idea rather than a raw appeal to passion is met with cries of Censorship! Those who cry the most loudly, however, are not always concerned to preserve freedom of discussion. More often, discussion is what they want to prevent, and they have discovered that reciting the ritual word censorship is an effective way to do it.

When no obvious practical purpose for a possible structure presents itself, archaeologists tend to reach for their explanation of last resort, namely 'ritual', or religion.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

Jessica placed her palms against her cheeks, began the ritual breathing that stilled emotion and clarified the mind, then bent forward from the waist in the devotional exercise that prepared the body for the mind's demands. Paul's choice of this Cave of Birds as his command post could not be questioned, she knew.

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others—it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual. Water.