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Quotes About Reaction

Holy shit, somebody muttered in the dark. A virgin, sputtered another. I didn't know they still made them. He just did.
~ Larry Kramer
If looks could kill, I might have killed him.
~ Laura Dave
See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.
~ Laura Wiess
His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Why was I mad? Because he'd surprised me with a really nice hotel room. What a bastard.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I don't know whether to yell at you or hug you.' 'I affect a lot of people that way
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It would have been childish to give him the finger, so I didn't do it. Zane did it for me. Jason blew them a kiss. We
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
~ Lauren Willig
The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
If Mrs. Elliott chose to work off her upset by indulging in an orgy of baking, it was fine with me.
~ Laurie R. King
He went on, hurting her, torturing her. And then a very strange thing happened. Very strange. So strange she didn't understand it at first. So strange she couldn't think about it, couldn't even realize what it was. All she could do was react. The fire in her breasts and loins turned from pain to pleasure. The ache that dominated her entire being became an ache that craved immediate satisfaction. She didn't want to escape, not any more.
~ Lawrence Block
I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears
~ Timothy Keller
Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
~ Alessandro Volta
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.
~ George Smoot
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
~ Larry Wall
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
~ Isaac Newton
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
~ Jon Elster
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
~ Charles Kettering
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
~ Iain Banks
There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife