Nonreaction Quotes & Sayings

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it. — Dylan Thomas

When was the last time you hugged the earth??? Appreciate Humanity ... For We Are All One! — Timothy Pina

Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it. — P.G. Wodehouse

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. — Idries Shah

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years. — John M. McHugh

In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't. — Jon Bon Jovi

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity. — Penny Marshall

All art is made from anger. — Lawrence Weiner

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear. — Maxine Hong Kingston

The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details ... Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent. — Maimonides

Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life. — Whitney Port

Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence. — Eckhart Tolle

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know. — Freddie Mercury

First person singular obtaining colloquial orgasm within a Caledonian sandwich' it said, then looked annoyed, and spoke incoherently into a grille set in its belly which replied. It looked up and said, 'Sorry, as I was saying: I come in peace — Iain M. Banks

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit. — Frederick Buechner

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency. — Desmond Tutu