Quotes About Reaction

That was cool." "You're psychotic.

That was cool.' You're psychotic.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.

Saints ans Stars... I´d built my entire gut response to this person on the fact that they couldn´t smile right

What did you do the moment you found out?" Mraize said. "Cursed your name.

He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would people react if they knew the Blackthorn himself had broken before a crisis of conscience? They'd laugh. In that moment, he didn't care. So long as he could be a hero to this woman

The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah.

Maybe you saw me there when you glanced at the rest of the room, to see what people look like when they actually have to work to get things." He drew his lips to a line. It seemed I'd touched a nerve. Excellent. First blood.

He felt an immediate spike of panic—which he shot in the head and dumped in a lake.

The goal is to learn to recognize when we are experiencing shame quickly enough to prevent ourselves from lashing out at those around us.

One of the outcomes of attempting to ignore emotional pain is chandeliering. We think we've packed the hurt so far down that it can't possibly resurface, yet all of a sudden, a seemingly innocuous comment sends us into a rage or sparks a crying fit. Or maybe a small mistake at work triggers a huge shame attack. Perhaps a colleague's constructive feedback hits that exquisitely tender place and we jump out of our skin.

Stressful situations cause both physiological (body) and psychological (mind and emotion) reactions. However, regardless of how strongly our body responds to stress (increases in heart rate and cortisol), our emotional reaction is more tied to our cognitive assessment of whether we can cope with the situation than to how our body is reacting.

and ignoring her shocked gasp, he used his foot to stomp it into pieces. "Are you crazy?

It [the town] was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it.

You get scared a lot, do you?" She'd made it clear more than once that she thought he was a robot or something worse. That sort of thing usually didn't bother him, but hearing it from her had his back teeth grinding together. "It's a normal reaction." "You're familiar with normal?" He

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had been always tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well-balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force with a limited mind.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

Her laugh produced in him a momentary gloom.

Well, fuck a duck.

The second number goes off like a top - so fast indeed that when suddenly the music ceases and the lights go up some are stuck in their seats like carrots, their jaws working convulsively, and if you suddenly shouted in their ear Brahms, Beethoven, Mendeleev, Herzegovina, they would answer without thinking - 4, 967, 289.

Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!