Nonself Quotes & Sayings

I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries. — Robert Barry

Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome. — J.K. Rowling

Someone may be able to speak beautifully about compassion, wisdom, or nonself, but this doesn't necessarily help others. And the speaker may still have a big self or treat others badly. His eloquent speech may be only empty words. We can get tired of all these words, even the word "Buddha". — Thich Nhat Hanh

The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His task is to rid himself of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content is dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

He's not lying. I can assure you, he's part fish. Jacques Cousteau has nothing on him. Aquaman, either. (Solin) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for. — Helen Reddy

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history. — Alex Kapranos

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. — Mitt Romney

He had always listened to the music of a more sensitive man. She had let several relationship cruelties slide because of it. — Marie-Helene Bertino

Because specific defenses do not ordinarily react to our own normal cells, it is said that the immune system is able to distinguish "self" from "nonself. — Sylvia S. Mader

These militiamen were what Jackson would call cou rouge. Because they were seriously red of the neck. — Kresley Cole

The Indian community in the U.K. has a unique place in our diaspora. U.K. is the first country which has an Indian community truly representative of its diversity. — Preneet Kaur

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love. — Mother Teresa

That's the thing about being a criminal," Kat told her. "Nothing ever goes according to plan. — Ally Carter

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. — Steven Saylor

The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country — Sunday Adelaja