Quotes About Reaction

For the victim of anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. His reaction to the one is the same as to the other: both trouble him equally.

The passion for prophesying then seizes everyone; skeptics and fanatics alike delight in the idea of disaster and give themselves up in concert to the pleasure of having foreseen and trumpeted it abroad. But it is especially the theoreticians of Reaction who exult (tragically, no doubt) over the reality or the imminence of the worst - of the worst that is their raison d'être.

What dates most is rebellion - that is, the most vital of our reactions.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

Men are like that, they can resist sound argument, yet yield to a glance.

I'm extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

Una specie di reazione chimica su cui non ho nessun controllo. Posso solo stare a guardare. Entra in circolazione con il sangue e in meno di due ore ha preso possesso di me. L'attesa invade completamente l'atmosfera dell'appartamento. Sono ricoperta da una membrana in cui né televisione, né telefonate di amici, né bagni caldi né libri possono fare breccia. Non riesco a vedere più niente. I pensieri più assurdi mi possiedono, come spiriti maligni.

Sometimes, the more you stir it, the worse it stinks.

it's not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens that makes a difference.

The last French Bourbon to reign, Charles X, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI and of his brief successor, Louis XVIII, displayed a recurring type of folly best described as the Humpty-Dumpty type: that is to say, the effort to reinstate a fallen and shattered structure, turning back history. In the process, called reaction or counter-revolution, the reactionary right is bent on restoring the privileges and property of the old regime and somehow retrieving a strength it did not have before.

A woman walks into a bar with her five-pound Chihuahua and carefully places the little dog near her feet. She soon notices that the guy sitting next to her looks a little bit queasy. He's clutching his stomach and grimacing, and he's sweating profusely. After a few minutes the guy doubles over and vomits. Afterward, he notices the little dog struggling in the pool of vomit and says, "Whoa, I don't remember eating that!

Today is not the 1930s. By acknowledging differences and considering instances where a populist reaction was contained as well as those where populist leaders and movements usurped power, I hope to avoid the worst pitfalls.

I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

I think my music is like anchovies–some people like it, some people get nauseous.

I had just started my new paragraph when the classroom door opened and a woman and a fat blond girl walked in. Sharon sits behind me and I heard her say, "Ugh." Diane sits beside me and she whispered, "I hope she isn't going to be in this room.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It's not because I want to be a rebel; it's my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.

I always question whether people are going to know who I am, and I'm always blown away by the love and reaction I receive.

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.

Out of the blue, I received this offer and invitation to be a part of this movie, 'The Good Dinosaur.' I turned to my Pixar experts, my kids, and asked them what this could all be about. Of course, they flipped out, and it was pretty obvious from their reaction that I was going to do this.