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Quotes About Reaction

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
~ Richelle Mead
He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.
~ Richelle Mead
Keith was just bringing the glass to his lips when Adrian said, "Mmm. O positive, my favorite." Keith sprayed out the wine he'd just drunk and promptly started coughing. I was relieved that none got on me. jill burst into giggles, and Clarence stared at his glass wonderingly. "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.
~ Richelle Mead
Holy crap," I said. While staring off at Rose and Dimitri, a brilliant flash had caught my eye—a flash on Rose's finger. "What's that?" I exclaimed. "Did you rob Lissa's crown jewels?
~ Richelle Mead
His smile returned as he tilted his head toward Sydney. "You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eybrow. "Oh? Did you just demote yoursefl? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.
~ Richelle Mead
He stepped forward and punched Dorian in the face, hard enough that I heard a thwack. "Ow," moaned Dorian, wincing from the pain. "My greatest asset.
~ Richelle Mead
Sage!" he called. "You have got to see this." Eddie and I reached the next green and stared in astonishment. Then I burst out laughing. We had reached Dracula's Castle. (...) I couldn't stop laughing. Adrian and Eddie looked at me as though they'd never seen me before. "I don't think I've ever heard her laugh," Eddie told him. "Certainly not the reaction I was expecting," mused Adrian. "I'd been counting on abject terror, judging from past Alchemist behaviour. I didn't think you liked vampires.
~ Richelle Mead
Please don't get sentimental," said Jerome. "It's nauseating.
~ Richelle Mead
Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts.
~ Richelle Mead
She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?
~ Richelle Mead
I stared, hoping my mouth hadn't dropped opened or anything embarrassing like that.
~ Richelle Mead
The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
~ Roald Dahl
The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.
~ Roald Dahl
Ughhhhhhhh!' he said. 'Arghhhhhhhh! Ouchhhhhhhh!
~ Roald Dahl
It took a few moments for the full meaning of her words to penetrate, and in the silence that followed I became aware of Mike and how he was slowly drawing himself up in his chair, and the colour coming to his face, and the eyes opening wide, and the curl of the mouth, and the dangerous little patch of whiteness beginning to spread around the area of the nostrils.
~ Roald Dahl
It's fizzing the wrong way!
~ Roald Dahl
Oh my gawd dad, what've you done to your hair?" the son shouted.
~ Roald Dahl
When the officer turned to face her, Veronica blinked.
~ Rob Thomas
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
when you hear the bullet before you hear the gun, you are on the wrong end of the firing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Department of Defense" ever won a war; see the histories. But it seems to be a standard civilian reaction to scream for defensive tactics as soon as they do notice a war. They then want to run the war—like a passenger trying to grab the controls away from the pilot in an emergency.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, my God!" "Compose yourself.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Hit anything hard enough, strike sparks. Elementary physics, known to everybody but intelligentsia
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Among domesticated primates, emotions also confer status and power. That is, the most emotional person in the room "dominates" everyone else in the room: they must all react to his or her emotions, one way or another, or surrender the turf by retreating from the room entirely.
~ Robert Anton Wilson