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Quotes About Reactions

Madame Mayor was not amused. Or, maybe she was and just stifled her laughter. Whatever her private reaction, she suspended both combatants for six weeks. And for six weeks there was no law in La Conner. According to full-time residents, the town has never been more peaceful.
~ Tom Robbins
He could tell from the faces of some of the reporters that it was going to be one of those mornings
~ Tomas Guillen
It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live in fear of someone else's reactions. They don't relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.
~ Koren Zailckas
The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing.
~ Caryll Houselander
Terrible events produce outrage, and when people are outraged, they are all the more likely to accept rumors that justify their emotional states, and also to attribute those events to intentional action.
~ Cass R. Sunstein
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.
~ George Herbert
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.
~ George R.R. Martin
La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel . La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.
~ Georges Canguilhem
In laboratories, we can see the results of experiments but we can't follow the reactions that lead to those results. The paths of those reactions may reside outside the physical measurements of length, width, height, and time. Physics has entered the metaphysical, the realm beyond the physically perceivable, in the fullest sense of that word.
~ Gerald Schroeder
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 than hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.
~ Leontine Young
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.
~ Tom Monaghan
Our reactions to unhappiness can transform what might otherwise be a brief, passing sadness into persistent dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
At the heart of compassion is the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes and tempering your reactions to them through empathy. If you do not understand what someone is going through it is hard to feel compassion for them. You do not want to be that person who is always telling others 'I wish you would just get over it already'.
~ J. Thomas
Music isn't just a bunch of notes strung together, sweetheart. It's life. It's memory. Songs trigger specific and often predictable emotional reactions. Music's an expression of emotion, desires.
~ J.D. Robb
New shows do tend to be eaten up by Twitter.
~ Alex Horne
Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.
~ Nikki Sixx
Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.
~ Eleanor Catton
I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.
~ David Nail
Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.
~ Rita Ora
Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.
~ Mike Barnicle
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
~ Henry James
I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.
~ Jen Lancaster