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Quotes About Reaction

You cant even have a good laugh anymore without people being upset. Lighten up people!
~ Unknown
I love when I upset people by being happy shows how little self confidence they have...
~ Unknown
He lost his temper once only, because she cried, which he considered cowardly, unworthy of her. People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked
~ Marcel Proust
The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.
~ Marcel Proust
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
~ Marcus Buckingham
No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.
~ Marcus Sakey
I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Nothing in my tale seemed to surprised the woman. The cat, on the other hand, seemed not to find a word of it credible.
~ Unknown
Retra recoiled from his dangling nakedness...
~ Unknown
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." It's part of a longer passage, which reads:
~ Marie Forleo
We always tend to keep within ourselves threshold reactions such as a little doubt, or a little impulse not to do something. If the impulses are not very strong we are inclined to put them aside in a one-sided way and by this we have hurt an animal or a spirit within us.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened
~ Kirsten Beyer, Protectors
How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?
~ Shannon L. Alder
His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn't breathe.
~ Sidney Knight, Alex
Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.
~ Tom Aikens
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
~ George Ellwanger
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
~ Stephen Fry
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
~ George Orwell
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?
~ Steven Wright
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
~ Groucho Marx
(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
~ Victor Borge