Quotes About Reaction

I bang my head on a faucet. "Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt?

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

C'est terrible

surprise he turned and spat into the ditch. 'That's what I think of him!

Artemis was propped on his elbows. You hit me, he said in disbelief.

Constance Lane tried to frown, but there wasn't enough slack skin across her brow.

Vern was alternately amused or irked by humans' reaction to his appearance. On this occasion, he experienced both emotions within a second of each other. The first guy blurted, Hail, Satan. Which was presumably a last ditch attempt to change saviours to appease the devil heading for him.

Butler glimlachte. Een haai die een blote kont ziet.

Ze kunnen het huis niet binnengaan voor Fowl dood is. Het is een soort extreme allergische reactie. Dat betekent, geloof het of niet, dat betekent...' 'Dat ze het hebben gered,' maakte Holly zijn zin af. 'Hij leeft. Artemis Fowl leeft.' 'D'Arvit,' kreunde Root, en hij kwakte nog een portie kots op de terracotta tegels.

Oh, said Mown, a handy non-committal syllable to have around when you haven't the first clue as to what you are feeling.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No es lo que te ocurre, sino cómo reaccionas lo que importa (Epíteto)

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Every circumstance comes with two handles, which one of which you can hold it, while with the other conditions are insupportable.

It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.