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Quotes About Reaction

Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don't you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively. In this particular instance the answer wasn't hard to find. Nobody likes to be pitied. Better, by far, to make people angry, irritate them so that they won't come back again …
~ Dorothy Simpson
Ow! My brains!
~ Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
~ Douglas Adams
Shit!" yelled Arthur as helpfully as he could.
~ Douglas Adams
The driver wound down the window and leaned out. Had a crash then? he shouted at them. Yes. Ha! he said and drove on
~ Douglas Adams
I searched my soul, and discovered that there was nothing anywhere in my upbringing, experience, or even primal instincts to tell me how to react to someone who has quite simply, calmly, sitting right there in front of me, stolen one of my biscuits.
~ Douglas Adams
He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.
~ Douglas Adams
Yes," called out the sort of people who call out "yes" when comedians ask them if they're having a wonderful time.
~ Douglas Adams
Richard stared in disbelief. "You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?
~ Douglas Adams
All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!
~ Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
~ Douglas Adams
Al prin­ci­pio se creó el Uni­ver­so. Esto hizo que mucha gente se ca­brea­ra y fue re­co­no­ci­do de forma ge­ne­ra­li­za­da como una pé­si­ma idea.
~ Douglas Adams
Who said anything about panicking?' snapped Arthur. 'This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I've settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I'll start panicking!
~ Douglas Adams
She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.
~ Douglas Coupland
the shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so.
~ Douglas Preston
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
~ Agatha Christie
The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.
~ Agatha Christie
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face.
~ Agatha Christie
Mon ami , let this be a lesson to you. You are a man . Behave, then, like a man ! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!
~ Agatha Christie
I enrage myself with an imbecile. I say, 'I would like to kick him.' Instead I kick the table. I say, 'This table, it is the imbecile, I kick him so.
~ Agatha Christie
Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass.
~ Agatha Christie
You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence.
~ Agatha Christie
But all the same, it is true what I say--artificial conditions bring about their natural reaction.
~ Agatha Christie