Myth Ritual Quotes

#1. Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

Elizabeth Janeway

#2. Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye.

George R R Martin

#3. The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

Orison Swett Marden

#4. O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

Hart Crane

#5. There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

James Lee Burke

#6. Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.

Dossie Easton

#7. Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Dana Spiotta

#8. They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

A.C. Dixon

#10. The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life; adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions.

Fernando Lachica

#11. There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.

Brandy Norwood

#13. down on the small love seat

Tamra Lassiter

#14. Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization
carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...

Diane Wakoski

#15. I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

Stefon Harris

#16. Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.

Wendy Wunder

#17. If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

Carl Sagan

#18. But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

William Robertson Smith

#19. Look, I was an idiot. I didn't want people to think that I had a crush, so I decided to give everyone the impression that I truly, honestly hated Madison Harter. For no reason. Just thinking about this makes me want to punch myself in the eyeball.

Jesse Andrews

#20. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Jerry Garcia

#21. Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

Starhawk