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Quotes About Reaction

Being angry isn't always for a reason that makes sense.
~ Orson Scott Card
Umbo grimaced. "It would be just like him.
~ Orson Scott Card
If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes. He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much." This time, she didn't hit him.
~ Connie Brockway
Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bad news? Oh, festering fungus! What sort of bad news?
~ Cornelia Funke
Sai bene quanto il fuoco sia facile a offendersi.
~ Cornelia Funke
but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with Hiccup copped it. SORRY, and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
~ Cressida Cowell
It's hard to imagine him angry without them. It must be like watching a game show by yourself, how calling out the answers feels silly and pointless. What is fury without witnesses? Where's the tension minus an audience to wonder what you'll do next?
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Dude, he said, Calm down. This was something I hated being told, especially by a boy. My voice might rise half an octave, I thought of telling him, but there's no need to take cover - I will not leap from my chair to embrace you, I will not even shriek with delight.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
He hated you for what you said: that his tubified art is sentimental and self-important.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.
~ D.J. MacHale
Frost is angry because I tried to give him some advice. He was dancing as Frostyev in his Goblinovski Festival Ballet, and there were a few simple ways that he could have improved his style. I was trying to help, but he took it very badly.
~ Daisy Meadows
But what do average people do? The exact opposite. If they don't like a thing, they bawl out their subordinates; if they do like it, they say nothing.
~ Dale Carnegie
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
~ Dale Carnegie
Hoàn c?nh tá»± nó không th? làm cho ta sung sướng hay Ä'au kh?. Chính cái cách ta ph?n ?ng l?i vá»›i nó làm cho ta kh? hay vui.
~ Dale Carnegie
Esto es lo que hacía Schwab. Pero, ¿qué hace la persona común? Precisamente lo contrario. Si alguna cosa no le gusta, arma un escándalo; si le gusta, no dice nada.
~ Dale Carnegie
Fuck you, I said. Uh-oh. There's that angry word.
~ Wally Lamb
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
See how the wings, striking against the air, sustain the heavy eagle in the thin air on high," he noted, then added, "As much force is exerted by the object against the air as by the air against the object."16 Two hundred years later, Newton would state a refined version of this as his third law of motion: "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
~ Walter Isaacson
Jobs's overwrought reaction was understandable. Sculley had once been a father figure to him. So had Mike Markkula. So had Arthur Rock. That week all three had abandoned him.
~ Walter Isaacson
He was working himself up into a fervor of delight while I was shrinking into a rage and thinking, How could you
~ Walter Isaacson
I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled.
~ Walter Isaacson