Quotes About Reaction

She whispered Yes before she even thought.

We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now." Isabel slapped the boy.

Kalbi patlayiverdi.

But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . I cried. It was furry! It- I stopped short, taken with a shudder. I know, said Herrick.

The world was evaporating under the sun and I was floating. The town was evolving according to the laws of some sublime chemical reaction in which matter went from solid to gas, avoiding the liquid stage, peeling off gradually as layers of mist.

I think through things. It calms me. Otherwise I don't react as well as I could have. As I would have wanted to.

In certain situations, you can't worry about how people will react. You just have to be as honest as you can and let what happens afterward happen.

If we take an honest look at the mistakes we've made, we'll see that many of them were a reaction to unnamed fear within us.

As Wilhelm Reich demonstrated in his groundbreaking work on the formation of character, the personality is built on these points of self-estrangement; the paradox is that what we take to be so real, our selves, is constructed out of a reaction against just what we do not wish to acknowledge.

But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happen, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry.

It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

When sodium, an unstable metal that can suddenly burst into flame, reacts with a deadly poisonous gas known as chlorine, it becomes the staple food sodium chloride, NaCl, from the only family of rocks eaten by humans.

saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

For me it is most often an immediate reaction; the more I look for something, the less chance there is for finding anything of value.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If

Paulus faced what Strecker called 'the most difficult question of conscience for every soldier: whether to disobey his superior's orders in order to handle the situation as he deems best'. Officers who disliked the regime and despised the GRÖFAZ ('Greatest Commander of All Time'), as they privately referred to the Führer, hoped that Paulus would oppose this madness and trigger a reaction throughout the army.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.

Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week. Strange, said I, how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.