Quotes About Reactions

If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks.

As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

Myers paused, wondering how Indra was taking all this, how it would affect her feelings toward Franklin. She seemed to have got over her initial shock; she was not, thank God, the hysterical type it was so difficult to do anything with.

Nothing," she said, "upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears.

Nothing, she said, upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears.

There was an old Hungarian proverb: 'Only a fool rushes bad news.

There were some people you hated on sight, just as there were others you liked on sight.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

I get annoyed whenever people try to be sympathetic, and annoyed when they don't.

Lips up, loads of teeth showing = very amused, happy. Lips up, no teeth showing = slightly amused, pleased. Lips pressed together, slightly turned down = not amused, slightly cross, or else puzzled (hard to tell which). Lips pressed together, eyes scrunched up at the same time = very displeased, angry. Lips round like an O and eyes wide open = startled, surprised.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.

If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing.

There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in. And so on.

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

reminded Al-Aswany of this before I read back to him what he had said about Egypt in the same interview with Egypt Today in response to a devastating survey of the country by Mondial, a leading U.K. provider of advice for foreign companies investing in Egypt and for those seeking travel insurance. The survey had produced a wave of soul-searching in the Egyptian media, and not a few knee-jerk reactions, after it ranked the country's service and tourist sectors a flat zero.

The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

People with a compressed structure, out of necessity, have crushed, numbed, and muffled their feelings. Not only do they need space, but it sometimes takes them long periods of time to be able to feel and then articulate their feelings. As a result, they often have markedly delayed reactions to events and people.

No se hallaba seguro de nada y eso era lo suyo: la reacción de su insignificancia ante lo imposible. No le agradaba explicarlo. No podía ni sabía.

The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

One is absolutely forced to make perpetual qualifications and one's own reactions are always canceling each other out. It is this, really, which has driven so many people mad.

People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.