Quotes About Reaction

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

There's two things in this world you can't frighten. A hungry dog or an angry woman.

If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

That's it," Darryl cried, seemingly flabbergasted.

Shut your fucking face.

He often talked to himself when he was overwhelmed with fear. He saw it as a more dignified reaction than wetting himself. And

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

Sarah's father's shoulders began to shake. Tears poured down his cheeks. He took first one hand, and then the other, off the steering wheel to mop his eyes. He drove, weeping and groaning, at 140 kilometres an hour. Sarah's mother would not look at him. Sarah and Saffron stared, dumbstruck. Then it gradually dawned on them that he was laughing.

He readied himself for an outburst of anger that never happened. So he became angry for her and tried not to show it in her presence.

It's funny how you get under his skin." At first, I'm not sure I heard him right. I almost ask whom he's talking about, because I can't quite believe he's admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affected by anything. "Like a splinter?" I say. "Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.

I smile when I'm nervous.

I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.

Cardan doesn't add that he laughs when he is nervous.

Oh, you mean instead of grabbing you?" Ben flinched as though he'd been slapped.

long moment. Ben raised his eyebrows.

She's clearly shocked by my behavior. She should be. My behavior is shocking.