Quotes About Reaction

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

think I have sort of an odd aversion, almost like a chemical sensitivity, when it comes to other people's enthusiasm.

The answer almost unmanned me.

All the woman flushed up in Marian's face as I spoke.

Gracias a Dios soy yo un ser que reacciona orgánicamente por encima de la razón! (...) Aprovéchense, mis buenos amigos, se lo ruego, de este ejemplo. Se evitarán así muchas molestias enojosas. Cultiven la supremacía de los sentimientos sobre la razón y verán entonces cómo le cortan las garras a todo ser cuerdo que intente arañarlos, por el propio bien de ustedes.

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived.

I wasn't feeling grief: that hellish chest-crammed agony you feel - but some portion of my brain activated by the memory decided to trigger the tear ducts

Damn, damn, damn," as he felt something wet and warm puddle on his seat.

it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion.

I said. I was silently horrified. What was wrong with these people? Peter had started sporting a beret—another bad sign.

Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.

If I should now utter piercing shrieks and act like a maniac on this platform, it would make many of you revise your ideas as to the probable worth of my philosophy.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Hitler, in turn, was enraged by the world reaction and convinced himself that it merely proved the power and scope of "the Jewish world conspiracy." In

Oh for God's sake," he said. The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst.

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

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable.

the failure will trigger the "flight" instinct

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.