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Quotes About Reaction

Some humans seem to get excited when they notice dogs peeing in the yard;
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Si veíamos a una persona, Madre se quedaba inmóvil, con los hombros en tensión, lista para salir corriendo.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
the person's hot button has been pushed.
~ W. Clement Stone
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
As usual, my first reaction to the reception of one of my overtures of philanthropy was a feeling of grace. This was always followed by a feeling of doubt. I thought through the possible courses this act of kindness could follow, and decided I did not care. I would help those I could, how I could, and damn the consequences.
~ Unknown
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
~ W.H. Auden
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
~ Wade Boggs
He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!
~ Jimmy Demaret
We are never angry because of what others say or do. It is our thinking that makes us angry.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.
~ Robert Greene
Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
~ Johann von Goethe
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
~ Trevor Horn
Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.
~ Rachel Hawkins
From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
~ Ayya Khema
the important issue facing Christians who suffer is not "Is God responsible?" but "How should I react now that this terrible thing has happened?
~ Philip Yancey
What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?
~ Philip Yancey
stares down at her spinach. "It looks like poop," she says.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Hell hath little fury like that of a critic who sees a writer make it big.
~ Piers Anthony
The flea chomped him hard on the left ear. Dor bashed at it—and boxed his ear. The pain was brief but intense.
~ Piers Anthony
You might easily be annoyed with me as people are when they are aroused from a doze, and strike out at me;
~ Plato
That which is afraid is that which is capable of being affected.
~ Plotinus
Fear is supremely contagious, and its immediate reaction is to make one try to run away.
~ Primo Levi
I am the impurity that makes the zinc react, I am the grain of salt or mustard.
~ Primo Levi
Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
~ Rachel Caine