Quotes About Reaction

Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.

I could still see the expression on that woman's face, the naked fear in her eyes, could see and hear the pulse pounding at her throat. It made my mouth water.

Have you no shame?" His answer was a slow grin.

When we react to situations, we always choose what feels best for us emotionally.

Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.

He had still offered me no return address. I couldn't have written back and given him my reaction to his words, even if I had known what to say.

Funny how we do things before there's even time to think how it will turn out.

often when we are in the middle of a situation and emotionally involved in it, logic and common sense disappear.

Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.

He wanted to get down his reactions to that painting, exactly what he'd noticed and his response to it. You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

Fear took each of us differently.

If you panic...you die.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

We know a lot of ugly things happen in the world and we can't allow ourselves to get indignant about all of them. We have limited reserves of indignation. But when the events are so close, when they touch you personally, what must you do? It's one thing not being able to do anything – you know something isn't right, but you can't do anything about it – it's quite another when you have in your own hands the possibility of reacting in some way.

They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.

Lorsque la bêtise gifle l'intelligence, l'intelligence a le droit de se conduire bêtement.

If it wriggles, it's biology. If it smells, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics.

Lou Priolo defines manipulation as "an attempt to gain control of another individual or situation by inciting an emotional reaction rather than a biblical response from that individual

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

If you accidentally fart loudly in public, just yell "Jet power!" and start walking a lot faster.

History is the action and reaction of these two,— Nature and Thought;— two boys pushing each other on the curb-stone of the pavement.

I was not surprised. I wanted to be, but I wasn't.