No Form Quotes

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Stress is a form of suffering.

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Men without jobs do not form families.

Architectural-form equals social-form

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.