Quotes About Reaction

No one has, because even in this middle age, he's sensitive, and if you say the wrong thing, he'll show the world just how sensitive he is by crying at your funeral.

We scream when we are in pain. But, weirdly, we also scream for the opposite of pain—intense pleasure, joyous surprise, great excitement. Have you seen the videos of fangirls in the sixties in the presence of the Beatles? They positively shriek. Crying is also triggered by opposites. You might cry on the worst day of your life and on the best. Weddings and funerals; the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

Fear is a funny thing. If that's true, why aren't I laughing?

There are very fast-acting pathways in your brain that, with the first flush of threat, bypass your frontal cortex and rational thinking.12

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

Every time we are upset, we must admit to ourselves that we have chosen to be upset, no one has made us upset.

As victims, we aren't responsible for our lives. We blame someone else. However, this statement is true for me, and it's true for every one else: My life is my responsibility. The circumstances of my life don't determine the quality of my life; the quality of my life is determined by my reaction to circumstances.

I chose to get angry when you did what you did.

In the table below we list the most common physical, cognitive, and emotional signs of a stress or trauma reaction. If

This distinction between form and experience is not pedantic, but fundamental: a form can express the Transcendent, an experience cannot. A form can express the common ground in which all things share. An experience can only express one man's reaction to that common ground.

I knew from rock concerts that people notice your reaction to mistakes more than they notice the actual mistakes, so I just kept singing—in gibberish. Eventually my mind cleared.

When a leaked copy of the document, prepared under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's Undersecretary for Policy, was disclosed by the New York Times in May 1992, the negative reaction from both the White House and foreign capitals was so strong that it had to be redrafted.

Minimizing any visible reaction: If the person with BPD knows the button-pushing is having the desired effect—whether consciously or unconsciously—chances are that the behavior will be repeated.

After having much praised or much blamed anybody, one is generally sensible of something just the reverse soon afterwards.

I didn't quite know what to say. Kitty was one of the most poised and self-confident women I'd ever known, and here she was knocked off her feet and set spinning.

Oh," I said, feeling punched in the windpipe.

Lower your voice," he warned, but I'd had enough. As he reached for my arm again, I wrenched myself free and nearly flattened Boy Long in the process. I hadn't even seen him. Glancing between Jock and me quickly, gauging the situation, Boy said, "Is everything all right

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

She nodded thoughtfully. "Well, I've found men will believe almost anything when their blood is flowing away from their brains.

compensating mechanism for an apparent loss

Nothing we human beings do is without emotion.

Emoting is when we cry, anger out, or verbally ventilate the energy of an inner emotional experience. Feeling, on the other hand, is the inactive process of staying present to internal emotional experience without reacting.