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"ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. ritual is the spark that must not go out." »Christina Baldwin
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"Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion." »T. S. Eliot
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"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, Dune
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"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
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"The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children." »Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
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"dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" »Constanze
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"Try everything once except incest and folk dancing." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"Let's be honest Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body." »Isadora Duncan
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"dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." »Robert Frost
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"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you." »Ernest Hemingway
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war." »Homer
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"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child." »Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." »Matt Groening
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." »Matt Groening
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars." »Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"
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"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing." »Sir Arnold Bax
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"The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars." »Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."" »Sir Arnold Bax
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"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart." »Hal Borland
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"The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Take a woman dancing and she'll have fun for one night; teach a woman how to dance and she'll have fun for the rest of her life." »Ann Alfano
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"dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life." »Eugene Peterson
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent." »Michel de Montaigne
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