Quotes About Reaction

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Whenever a young person encounters trauma, they react to it and they also repeat it. Modeling has elements of identifying with the aggressor. In modeling, you don't resist the dysfunctional mores of your family—you reenact them. You see yourself as you were seen; you internalize bad behavior as normal.

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

This set point reaction, this relational modus operandi, is your relational stance, the thing you will do over and over again when you are stressed.

It's the Whoosh, the visceral reaction that comes up from the feet like a wave washing over your body. I speak of it as our first consciousness, and I divide it into three reactions—fight, flight, or fix.