Quotes About Reaction

Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address the why, the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.

On the way there hoop had talked to him about pain, telling him that it was a fleeting thing, a physical reaction to damage that he knew would do him no harm, and that afterward he wouldn't actually be able to remember what the pain. Had felt like.

quickly the fear was replaced with rage.

When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been, "So much the better for us!" That assault had barely ground to a halt outside Paris. In 1940, the same high command had greeted initial news of another German attack with smiles—and that attack had ended at the Spanish border. The problem was that people tended to wed their ideas more faithfully than their spouses, and the tendency was universal. It

Actually, he hadn't just complained; she'd come home from school one afternoon and found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters that he sometimes had trouble pulling it out. When she asked him what he was doing, he explained in a calm and serious voice that he was trying to kill the book before it killed him.

If I'd known you were coming, he said, I woulda worn my lululemons.

found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters

R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.

a sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis

It took Maestra a day and a half to coax Sailor down from the fir tree in which he'd taken refuge, and as for Hattie, her reaction was that of the typical contemporary American: I'm suffering. Therefore, somebody must owe me money. I'm hiring a lawyer.

All he did from freshman year through sophomore was react -- sneer, laugh, dismiss, find fault, demean -- a young man's version of critical thinking.

The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Everyone stopped talking and turned to her except Rider, who proceeded to shatter his teacup with his fork.

today. Stephanie hadn't known how to respond to it.

On the bus to St. Louis, a man with a ukulele stood in the aisle and offered to play requests. Someone shouted out, "Freebird," and the man sat back down, visibly angered

Each time she brushed her fingers over the convex curve of her stomach, she noticed that the minister's wife, the upper part of her face a whirring glass eye, would purse her lips with disgust. Camille began to rub her stomach more and more often, smiling as the minister's wife expressed her sour displeasure with the proceedings like a Pavlovian response.

I walk into Summerville and no matter what my mood is it instantly drops about thirty degrees.

You want the foolproof test to see if you're in a good relationship? Tell the person the thing that you're most afraid to tell them. Then see how they react.

You laugh at me, Frau Steadman?" Mr. Ollenburger touched his chest, his face twisting into an offended pout, yet his eyes sparkled merrily.

I didn't notice you actin' all shy when McKane cozied up to you.

Cranky you are this morning, Frau Steadman.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.