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Quotes About Reactions

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.
~ Virginia Postrel
Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.
~ Timothy Noah
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
~ George H. W. Bush
You get about 20 people in the audience calling you a cheat. It hurts your feelings.
~ Phil Taylor
It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.
~ Limmy
When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.
~ Jill Scott
When a match doesn't go your way, people tend to take to social media and just say very inappropriate things.
~ Kevin Anderson
Les grands moments de l'existence, les naissances, la maladie, la mort ont le don de vous ramener à l'extrême banalité et de vous faire monter aux lèvres ces expressions toute faites, nées de la sagesse populaire, et qui traduisent mieux qu'un langage savant les réactions viscérales (47).
~ Benoîte Groult
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell
She didn't want to have to spend her days battling her reactions to those male eyes of his, but then again, maybe she'd build up an immunity to them, the way children built up an immunity to the pox.
~ Beverly Jenkins
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
~ Bill Hicks
Men have mood swings. Women have mood leaps, mood swirls, mood loop-de-loops.
~ Bill Pronzini
If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.
~ Alaska
When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.
~ Nikki Cox
I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!
~ Jennifer Grant
'Wow, you look better in person!' - I get that a lot from fans.
~ Keiko Agena
Some people call me arrogant and boo me but I love it, because at least they're buying tickets. Meanwhile, other people are thinking, 'wow, this guy's different, I'll come and see him again.'
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
Most people when they see me cry for a shot, say, 'Wow, what a natural!' But I actually do cry and break down.
~ Richa Pallod
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
~ Dan Hill
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
~ Isaac Asimov
It's like, if you tweet anything about One Direction, you'll get a lot of hate - immediately. They're just searching the words and then writing back to anybody who writes about them.
~ Lauren Lapkus
marriage, it's less important to have many pleasant experiences than it is to have fewer unpleasant experiences, because people have a "negativity bias"; our reactions to bad events are faster, stronger, and stickier than our reactions to good events. In fact, in practically every language
~ Gretchen Rubin