Quotes About Involuntary

The unifying factor in my career across investing and entrepreneurship was that the whole time I've basically been an involuntary power user of legal services.

Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity the involuntary reflex of fear

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

All of the passengers knew the man with the yellow feather to be clownish and not the least bit qualified. He was also known to all as someone who lied so often it was considered involuntary and incurable. When he had $43 in his pocket he said head $76. When he lost at cards or golf, he walked away, then told the first person he encountered that he'd won. When there was no reason to lie, he lied. He lied about the time of day while standing under a clock.

the forces of nature are unconscious and involuntary; no decisions are made, so to comprehend humanity as a geological force we need to consider its distinctive quality, its volitional element. Humankind is perhaps better described not as a geological force but as a geological power, because we have to consider its ability to make decisions as well as its ability to transform matter. Unlike forces of nature, it is a power that can be withheld as well as exercised.

And maybe it was more than that. Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.

Not the angry, demanding cry of a child who wants attention, or the startled cry of a child who has hurt himself. This was a grown-up type of crying: involuntary, soft, sad, weeping.

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.

Another fantasy film rolled suddenly into his head, without his consent:

Isn't it annoying when your face doesn't do what you want it to express?

My answer came out at once. For me, chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. It could have been any woman asking for help, and I'd have said the same thing. It might have taken me a second or two longer, but I would have. For Elaine, there was no need to think about it for even that long. "I'll help.

We may state the question thus:—Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly. Is there anything more? No, there is nothing else. But

The sphincter which serve to discharge our stomachs has dilations and contractions proper to itself, independent of our wishes or even opposed to them.

imbranglement"—period colloquialism; an onomatopoetic word that means just what it sounds like: complicated and involuntary entanglement, whether physical, legal, or emotional.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

I can't help it," I said at last, "I'm a born lever-puller.

She laughed. It was quick but it took over her face like a sneeze.

That annoying moment when the song you hate is stuck in your head.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.