R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.”
“Ritalin never really worked for me.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.”
“Rite To Tyr:
Hail to the One-Handed God!
Hail to Him whose name is Honor
And whose Word is iron,
Who alone never shirks the thankless task
Whose reason is Lawful Necessity.
Hail to the Lord of Swords,
Who gave a weapon-bearing hand
To see that what must be done was done in truth.
Hail God of the sunset, last single ray of light,
Lord of loyal morality, whose name none takes in vain.
Now must I face loss to do what is right,
O Lord Tyr, and I do not ask for your aid
To take away that loss, that I might hope for ease of action.
As you stood forth knowing you must lose to win,
So I ask only that you keep my back straight,
My arm strong, my hand from trembling,
My voice from faltering, my words from vanishing,
My head up, and my resolve unyielding
As I reach into the challenging maw of my own future.”
Source: Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner: A Book of Prayer, Devotional Practice, and the Nine Worlds of Spirit
“RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Rites, rituals, and sacred ceremonies are not performances. They’re holy portals you can travel through, doorways of change, paths to your greatest potential. The Holy Source of all life is your collaborator in this work, guiding you forward.”
“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Ritorna a tua scïenza,
che vuol, quanto la cosa è più perfetta,
più senta il bene, e così la doglienza.
Tutto che questa gente maladetta
in vera perfezion già mai non vada,
di là più che di qua essere aspetta.”
Source: The inferno
“Ritsu... Do you like Oda?" More than me?
"Yes.”
Source: 王子の帰還 [Ouji no Kikan]
“Ritsu: "I’m a complete failure. At everything I do, I’m absolutely worthless. I know this, and yet I continue to burden the human race with my presence. Every day I rob the world of valuable air by breathing. I’m a thief, and I hate myself for it. I don’t deserve to exist. But even though I know it’s the right thing to do, I’m such a useless coward. I don’t even have the courage to jump!"
Tohru: "No, don’t! Don’t jump! It’s okay that you don’t have that kind of courage. The important thing is you’re alive. And life hurts sometimes and sometimes it can be hard, but it won’t always be that way. There’s gotta be a reason for you to live.”
“Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't.”
“Ritti sulla cima del mondo, noi scagliamo, una volta ancora, la nostra sfida alle stelle!”
Source: Manifesto of Futurism
“Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.”
Source: The IMac Book
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R. Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, pp. 85-154. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. quotes: A second study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients’ degree of media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual abuse. “In fact, less media exposure was associated with production of more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse, evidence that reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of exposure contagion.” Responses are consistent with the devastating and pervasive abuse these victims have experienced, so often including immediate family members.”
Source: Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations
“Ritual abuse may or may not have satanic overtones.”
“Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.”
“Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.”
“Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.”
“Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action - even ordinary action - so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.”
“Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.”
“Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.”
“Ritual is as old as humanity. The first humans ritually raised hands and voices in both desperation and exaltation, just as we do today. That protracted continuity is no historical accident. Ritual has been as critical to our success as fire and tools.”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources
“Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.”
“Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.”
“Ritual is not about doing something. It is about doing something right. By doing it right, we express the value we place on what we do. The very act of doing becomes more compelling, more beautiful, more perfect.”
Source: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion: Psychological and Ritual Resources
“Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.”
“Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.”
“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
Source: Four Weird Tales
“Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.”
“Ritual isn’t just repetition—it’s memory you can taste.”
(—Smoke & Oak: The Shared Legacy of Bourbon and Cigars)”
Source: Smoke & Oak: The Shared Legacy of Bourbon and Cigars: An American Story of Craft, Culture & the Science of a Perfect Pairing
“ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.”
“Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.”
“Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.”
Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness
“Ritual Version
—for Kate Middleton
humself, shamself, hymnself, shameself—.
lameself, lambself, numbself, unself—.
sing anger, goddess, of—. many devices—.
sing anger godless—. tell me who—.
sacred in the sea suffered so many woes—.
bookshelf, doubtshelf, debtshelf, riftshelf—.
driftshelf, truthshelf, foolshelf, rueshelf—.
sing less the many souls sent—. they perished—.
sing spoils for the dogs—. who swallowed down
the foolish song—. the soul and its companions—.
nounself, nonceself, nonself, lashself—.
ashself, lawself, thoughtself, aughtself—.
tell me, muse, from any point—. and birds—.
sing less the wrath of—. a man’s cleverness—.
tell also us—. of recklessness—. of home—.”
“Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers.”
Source: Who Dares Wins
“Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth.”
“RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Ritualistic abuse refers to organised abuse that is structured in a ceremonial fashion, often incorporating religious or mythological iconography (McFadyen et al. 1993). The ritualistic activity is typically structured by 'deviant scriptualism', in which abusive groups parody traditional religious symbols and ritual practices (Kent 1993a, 1993b). The majority of cases of ritualistic abuse involve female victims and facilitation by parents (Creighton 1993, Gallagher et al. 1996), although early research on sexual abuse in child-care arrangements emphasised the presence of ritualistic abuse in some cases (Finkelhor and Williams 1988, Waterman et al. 1993).”
Source: Organised Sexual Abuse
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or she has a "black heart" - seeing the abuser holding an animal heart and then feeling severe chest pain while it is supposedly inserted. In "brain transplants", the brain of an abuser or of a despised animal such as a rate is supposedly put into a child. Children are told that they are demons or monsters or aliens, or internal copies of an abuser whose "seed" has been implanted by rape.
Ch29, p324”
Source: Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
“Rituals and festivals, like those of a great national or international wedding-day, contain a thousand things to remind us that our countrymen inherit an experience much more lively and complex than any such local and temporary solution; and warn us against allowing the present to become more narrow than the past.”
Source: As I Was Saying: A Chesterton Reader
“Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.”
Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“Rituals are important.”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.”
“Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.”
“Rituals are the architects of belonging. They take the ordinary and transform it into something meaningful. A morning cup of tea becomes a pause before the day’s bustle. ... These small practices anchor us. They create pockets of home in the midst of chaotic schedules and transient spaces”
“Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.”