Quotes About Reaction

Ah, dammit to hell and blast and nonspecific fornication" I said, when the rivet went shooting off into the grass again. "Is everyone OK with that?" "What's wrong with nonspecific fornication?" Abby demanded. "I don't like my fornication specific.

I had seen her in a temper before – I tell her it's her French grandfather's fault, Mediterranean lack of self-control – and I knew she'd settle down now she'd taken it out on the tree.

The off-the-record reaction of the First Human Contact Team upon meeting the di'Taykan had been, "Holy fuk, they're elves!" To the horror of right thinking xenoanthropologists everywhere, the name stuck.

We start to regulate an upsetting emotion the moment we become aware of it.

If the amygdala recognizes an emotionally potent stimulus similar to something we reacted strongly to in the past, it unleashes a flood of emotion and a fitting action.

Each schema has its own emotional hallmark, a distinctive gut-level, wrenching feeling that takes us over when the schema has us in its grip.

A schema represents an outmoded holdover from earlier learning. In other words, remind yourself, "I'm having this reaction because of what I learned to do back then, not because of what's actually happening right now.

Becoming aware of these emotional habits is the first step, because unless we can catch and challenge them as they are triggered by the events of our lives, they will dictate how we perceive and react.

Celestial was mad, and it turned me on a little, like the click on the stove before the flame took.

Feminism would have us apologize for having that reaction. It wants to replace aesthetics with politics, and to the extent it's succeeded, it's impoverished us.

What did bother him was the tone of the meetings themselves, when participants spoke about their reaction to the visitation: most of them talked about their newfound devotion to God, and they tried to persuade the bereaved that they should feel the same.

whereas the first llama had previously become annoyed, stomping his feet, he now became infuriated. He turned and spit into the second llama's face.

Generally when a man in uniform has something unusual brought to his attention, his instinct is to stop it.

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.

Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there's nothing special about being able to startle someone - that's an involuntary reflex, and it makes people laugh.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That's something you hear often. But I think there's more to it than just the speed of the players - there's also the speed with which you have to process information around you.