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Quotes About Reaction

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
~ John Sterling
Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.
~ Deacon Jones
You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.
~ Karl Pilkington
Oh, god!" Carl Hollywood said, and collapsed into a big, tatty, overstuffed chair they kept backstage for such purposes.
~ Neal Stephenson
A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.
~ Neal Stephenson
I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up.
~ Neal Stephenson
She heaved two or three times, as if sobbing, and suddenly sneezed -- not a polite 'atchoo' but a thermonuclear explosion so powerful that she staggered in place, nearly losing her balance, and some loitering Hispanic men on the other side of the boulevard looked up alertly, ready for action.
~ Neal Stephenson
Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. —Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS
~ Neal Stephenson
Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.
~ Neal Stephenson
I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up. HOW
~ Neal Stephenson
Reaction is just that—an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Justice is an action, not a reaction.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
When a phalanx of paparazzi started taking pictures of Dennis Rodman, who was standing nearby, I looked at Lisa's face, illuminated by the flashbulbs. And out of nowhere, my heart awoke from its torpor and body-checked my chest. When
~ Neil Strauss
she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.
~ Nella Larsen
dando un golpe fuerte en la puerta. Todos se quedan un momento
~ Neus Sans
the crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money.
~ Niall Ferguson
in Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, where 45 percent of all civilian deaths were people aged fifteen to thirty-five.97 Death was not caused by the influenza virus itself so much as by the body's immunological reaction to the virus. Perversely, this meant that individuals with the strongest immune systems were more likely to die than those with weaker immune systems.
~ Niall Ferguson
Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
~ Nicholas Sparks
What? You don't think he's cute? I didn't really notice. How can you not notice when a guy is cute? Melody stared at her in disbelief.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Do you ever get scared? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not like you're walking around terrified all the time, even when things are going to hell around you. It's just you're....reacting, trying to stay alive. Things are happening so fast that you don't have time to think much of anything except doing your job and trying not to die. It usally affects you afterward, once you're clear. That's when you realize how close you came and sometimes you get the shakes or puke or whatever.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
~ David Horowitz
Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
~ Casey Affleck
It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.
~ Jeff Hardy