Quotes About Knee-jerk

fensiveness n. A knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

I tend to be reactionary.

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 knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.