Quotes About Reactions

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.

It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

When we can't let the moment in front of us be what it is (because we're afraid that if it's good, it'll end too soon; if it's bad, it'll go on forever; and if it's neutral, it'll bore us to tears), we're out of balance. Mindfulness restores that balance; we catch our habitual reactions of clinging, condemning, and zoning out, and let them go.

Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical. Except for the ones who lost control of their bowels. Then it was just messy. (Nykyrian)

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

Their reactions are as perhaps Westerners would react to ghosts; not necessarily terrified (or not always so) but certainly wary of what they see" (Hind 1993, p. 17).

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites. That troubles me. People like that hear bad news from across the world, and they burst into wails and tears as though their own children have just been run over by a bus. To me, they don't seem very different from actors and actresses—they are able to burst into tears on command, but does it really mean anything?

As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.

Sounds serious," he said. "Huffing and sighing and eye rolling, you say? I've never heard of a teenage girl behaving like that.

Commenting to reporters regarding polls—I've always been fond of dogs, and they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles.

Whenever I wish to analyse human reactions, I think back to the conduct of my nephews. It is like viewing the world in microcosm, but in high relief, for children are much more obvious than their adult counterparts.

En marzo de 1812 se aprobó, tras acaloradas discusiones, la desdichada Constitución por la que España debería regirse… Esta cita, que procede de un libro de texto escolar editado siglo y medio más tarde, durante el franquismo, refleja la postura del sector conservador de las Cortes de Cádiz y la larga proyección que las ideas reaccionarias tendrían en el futuro.

We will discover that everything we are carrying around in our minds is nothing but extraneous matter. It has been put there by our desires, rejections, reactions, thoughts, plans, hopes, ideas, and viewpoints.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

People can press your buttons and make you react... but it's not under your control.