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To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Philip Andrew Adams

She's still not 100 percent from the ankle injury. She's toughed it out and goes through a ritual with taping it every day to make sure she's ready to go.

Randy Wright

It misleads the public, it misleads Congress, and it's part of their annual ritual of underestimating the need and overestimating the expenses.

Charles Hudson

If we wind up with Indians in Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas, and the ritual moves on there, people get to see it.

Charles Siler

He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.

Julie Adams

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

It's a ritual of the fall that you're going to come back and see how your cliffhangers turned out.

Matt Roush

The building just has a bad history, ... We didn't know it in the beginning, so we had to bless the set to make sure it let us work in there safely. We went through this Hawaiian ritual. It was the building nobody wanted to go into.

Daniel Dae Kim

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 replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert

[Yet other artists and culture mavens say that the city has always swayed to its own meandering rhythm and will somehow find a way to keep following its riffing, improvisational instincts.] To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress, .

Allen Toussaint

I thought it was a nice parable and lesson about fortitude - sticking with it even when you had a bad day. If you can make it through the ritual, there's a reward. And the name stuck.

Brian Marshall

Seek a sanctuary, Respect it, as it is holy, Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing, Nurture your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual, Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

Master Jin Kwon

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Starhawk

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

David P. Gardner

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

A. Whitney Brown

It's a simple ritual, but it has so many benefits.

Miriam Weinstein

The essay is about connection to his homeland. It's about honoring his parents, and the importance of ritual.

Jay Allison

The movie opened a level of discussion. Who's going to ever be close to an execution? It's like a secret ritual.

Sister Helen Prejean

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Christina Baldwin

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

John Cleese

It's an example of how well the shows were written and produced. The only way you knew Lilith was Jewish was that her son had a brit (ritual circumcision).

Bebe Neuwirth

Yom Kippur is about personal and community transgressions. The fasting remains a compelling element. The purpose of the ritual observance is to change our ethical observance.

Barry Schwartz

These findings suggest the medical ritual of a device can deliver an enhanced placebo effect beyond that of a placebo pill. There are many conditions in which ritual is irrelevant when compared with drugs, such as in treatment of a bacterial infection, but the other extreme may also be true: In some cases, the ritual may be the critical component.

Ted Kaptchuk

It was our ritual, every Friday night for years.

Kevin Murray

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn

We had a great festival. We opened with a ritual to elevate our consciousness to understand how to create world peace. The ceremonies were to pray for peace, harmony, and prosperity for all by the blessings of the Divine Mother, especially for those in harm's way.

Pandit Ramadheen Ramsamooj

Gift-giving has evolved from something wonderful to ... anxiety. It's as if we're stuck with the ritual without the meaning and joy.

Erik Gordon