Quotes About Reaction

I suppose infatuation is infatuation at any age, and maybe even worse when you're old enough to recognize the symptoms, be mortified by your reaction, and still not be able to do anything about it.

But what had really happened tonight? With the cougar, it was obviously adrenaline with a chaser of shock, and maybe a little post-traumatic stress thrown in for good measure.

Corey was already gone, heading for the stairs again. He took them two at a time. Then he pitched forward, hands clutching his head as he let out something between a moan and a strangled cry. Daniel raced upstairs to help him to his feet…and Corey promptly puked on him. "You were done with that shirt, right?

stomped off.

Ya he visto esa misma reacción otras veces: hombres que odian a las personas a quienes han tratado de forma injusta, por paradójico que pueda parecer. Creo que eso se debe a que la víctima es un recordatorio perpetuo de su comportamiento vergonzoso.

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

Ah, ah, ahhh ... first one gets mad, then one goes mad

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.

Her condition isn't quite what it seems," explained Klein. "It's a form of overcompensation, an overreaction to depression.

In June of 1944, when Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the German commander in France, was told that the Allies were landing in Normandy, he knew exactly what to do. He went out into the garden and pruned his roses. Von Rundstedt knew that in war, early reports, regardless of whether the news is good or bad, are usually misleading. Reacting to them with instant analysis merely makes the problem worse.

A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome newsHath but a losing office, and his tongueSounds ever after as a sullen bell,Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

The very ratsInstinctively have quit it.

To see sad sights moves more than hear them told.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

Did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never," growled thunder, "let's give him the works.

She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.

man would when he heard the whisper of a bullet