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Quotes About Reaction

Before a journey, never comes a destination Before action, never exists a reaction Before the question, never happens the answer Before the attack, never occurs retaliation Before distinctions, never arises hatred Before the examination, never appears a result Before flowers, never fragrances, fragrance
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Every act waves action and action defines the reaction.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Nobody is upsetting you. Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.
~ Eknath Easwaran
That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikes me as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.
~ Elaine Dundy
Overaroused HSPs tend to substitute "freeze" for the "fight or flight" response.
~ Elaine N. Aron
He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
~ Elena Ferrante
I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.
~ Elena Ferrante
Si fermò in tempo ma non abbastanza perché non capissi: fu come quando uno fa cenno di volerti dare uno schiaffo e poi non te lo dà.
~ Elena Ferrante
Si lo que leo o escribo me gusta, no pego ojo; si me disgusta, caigo en un sueño frágil de decepción y descontento.
~ Elena Ferrante
it was not a] circle—just a concrete platform with a pay phone and a sign that read EUCLID CIRCLE. I thought Euclid would have been mad. "That's so typical of your attitude," Svetlana said. "You always think everyone is angry. Try to have some perspective. It's over two thousand years after his death, he's in Boston for the first time, they've named something after him—why should his first reaction be to get pissed off?
~ Elif Batuman
Ralph and I returned the movie, Peter's Friends. I had never seen Ralph hate a movie so much that he had to go out in the middle of the night to return it. We kept walking toward the river.
~ Elif Batuman
I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room]
~ Anthony McGowan
During arousal, the electrical resistance of the skin is diminished; the pupil of the eye dilates; the respiratory rate may become either faster or slower, or else become irregular. Blood-pressure tends to rise, as does the heart rate. There is an increase in muscular tone, which may be accompanied
~ Anthony Storr
September 26, Newport went a little mad with grief. It was possibly,
~ Antoinette Stockenberg
Where Epictetus advised testing the value of things by asking whether they are in our power, Chrysippus recommended the following two questions: Is there good or bad at hand? Is it appropriate to react? For a Stoic, the answer to the first question would be yes only if it refers to our virtue. Otherwise it would always be no, because nothing external to us is truly good or bad. It follows that the answer to the second question would also be no, it is not appropriate to react.
~ Antonia Macaro
A person who delivers a public speech by wearing a cap on own head speaks either a crap or there is a trap if many people cheer or clap in the audience.
~ Anuj Somany
The biggest fool is often the first to react aggressively with an abuse against the person telling honestly the fact to the people.
~ Anuj Somany
Till the mentally-sick people'selfish activity are satiated by a person, they call him Sweety; If their depravity/sycophancy propensity is hit, they react to say his words Sh*tty.
~ Anuj Somany
The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
Mama covered her ears with her hands, but I knew she heard me. Tears streamed from her eyes and dribbled from her chin. Part of me wanted to blot her face with a tissue, real tender-like, but the evil me, the girl tired of keeping her feelings bottled up for fear I'd upset mama, was blissful at causing a commotion. Maybe it was cruel to make mama cry, but at least I had cracked her shell and got a reaction. Any response was better than talking to a zombie
~ April Young Fritz
It was a stalemate Silas was willing to live with, and apparently, so was his mother. They both knew it wasn't about the hem on a pair of pants. One of them was mourning, the other was not, and their individual reactions to Amos's disappearance created a powerful tension. The air in the house was charged with it.
~ Ari Berk
He heard ideas the mention of which — the thought of which — was prohibited in the society he represented. He often brought the newspaper Granma with him. It was the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba. And he would ask us to give him our reaction to things it printed. We would show him the doctrinaire objectives of the newspaper and the fact that the news was not really informative.
~ Armando Valladares
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
~ Arthur C Clarke
Any time you see your quarterback hurt, your heart drops for a second.
~ Chris Hogan