Quotes About Reaction

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

You can't help but be affected by anything negative that's written about you, even if you can shrug it off.

I went to a homoeopath once, but she just told me that I was allergic to everything that I liked.

I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

People in the States live for finding something they can lose their minds over. They have nothing else going on. They watch a show and there's a joke and everybody's up in arms.

He seemed satisfied with what he had made, although he didn't say anything. He just grinned at my reaction to it. I was so pleased that I jumped up and down, like those people who win prizes on TV game shows. My dad says they are told to act that way, and that it isn't dignified to get so excited over money. I guess it's okay to get excited over a great owl cage, though.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny. If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection. It is a man's reaction to things that determines their ability to exercise power over him.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

When we discuss a novel it is only partially to hear another person's 'view', it is much more to find out what we ourselves think in order to possess the text more completely. Such a possession is then a composite one, it is the book itself and the articulated reaction to it. So vivid can be the latter that it is not uncommon to find that the pleasure survives the cause; some novels seem more enjoyable to talk about than to read.

Christ on a bike, Tony …

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.

No se te ha ocurrido que, al contrario, otras personas no tienen tus dificultades porque no reaccionan a lo que les sucede como tú lo haces?

Normally the blue orbs caused extreme stress in animals.

the object again lifted off the ground and glided smoothly away in total silence. Again they tried to gain ground, but each time the object repeated the frustrating maneuver. It was clearly watching and reacting to them, trying to keep them at arm's length. Beneath his nervousness, Tom felt a spark of outrage. Who the hell do they think they are? he thought angrily.

The fact is, race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counter productive. I grew up in a family that believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction to them. There was no room for being a victim or depending on the white man to take care of you.

The man who draws first sparks an unconscious response from a trained opponent, who tends to draw more smoothly and with greater speed. It is counter-intuitive, but as Japanese kendo fighters will affirm, the instinctive reaction after thousands of hours of training is often faster than a blow resulting from a controlled decision. On

had happened and to assure the man his niece was unhurt. As Salisbury imagined Cromwell's reaction, he growled softly, shaking his head like a series of twitches, each one a bitter child of the shame spilling through him. He could feel the eyes of his wife and son on his back as he led the battered soldiers

Across the nation, in sleeping towns and villages, lights flashed on. Quiet streets suddenly filled with sound as radios were turned up. People woke their neighbors to tell them the news, and so many phoned friends and relatives that telephone switchboards were jammed. In Coffeyville, Kansas, men and women in their night attire knelt on porches and prayed.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Anyone had the potential to kill, under the right circumstances.