Quotes About Response

it was all very well being decent when things were smooth; but we often had rough times given us to show what we were. [. . .] Perhaps we are to have it now. If we are, it's up to us to show how we can deal with it. And we shan't do that by wailing over it.

Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on...neither?

We discover that every state of consciousness arises—and can only arise—within ourselves. One and the same event can provoke one person to laughter, another to tears, while a third remains completely indifferent; all because each is merely projecting outwardly his own inward attitude, and it is only this inward attitude which provokes our response, not the external events themselves.

What happens to us is not as important as how we respond.

Who would think that a hurricane would be political?" she pointed out, speaking of Katrina, "until it was?" (Thompson 2012).

button that third time. Pavlov's

dime cómo me mides y te diré cómo me comportaré". No

One of the great moments of your life will be the first time you are able to maintain control of your own actions and responses when a difficult person is on the rampage. You can do it if you back off! Refuse to argue. Set your limits. Stand as an equal who has the upper hand. You can care about and feel pity for this person whose ugly behaviors cause such chaos, but you don't have to let her control you.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say. Colours seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit.

Silence is as good as an answer, angel.

For all it was the answer he would have expected her to want, it did not seem to satisfy her.

At least he's laughing. It sounds as if he might strangle on it, but he's laughing. So help me God.

You can turn off sex, and you can turn off romantic love-but it's really hard to turn off all the human emotional responses to a powerful individual without also turning off your humanity.

I let her have the last word. I didn't really need to answer.

You know, the more upset you are, the more sarcastic you get.

I'm not usually stunned speechless. Call it a character flaw.

Fear was not a familiar sensation, and this fear-stranger-fear of the unknown-even less so. Among the legacies of atavism corrected by rightminding was the overactive fear response of the human amygdala to anything foreign or strange.

Did his own need, too barely exposed, burn friendship out? Or was he one of those unfortunates who were quite unaware of some element in themselves which repelled intimacy and blighted emotional response? After all, the ability to form satisfying personal relationships did not lie with everyone. It was part instinct, part luck, part hard work, endless unselfish giving. Hope. Loyalty.

The real differences between Lisa's and Kara's rates of aging lie in the complex interactions between genes, social relationships and environments, lifestyles, those twists of fate, and especially how one responds to the twists of fate. You're born with a particular set of genes, but the way you live can influence how your genes express themselves. In some cases, lifestyle factors can turn genes on or shut them off.

Yes," said Daphne, repressively.