Quotes About Response

Buddha once said to a man who was insulting and criticizing him, "If someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, to whom does it belong?" The man replied, "Then it belongs to the person who offered it." To which Buddha replied, "That is correct.  So if I decline to accept your abuse, does it not then still belong to you?

A man may have the best of causes, the best of talents, and the best of tempers; he may write as well as Addison, or as strongly as Junius; but even with all this he cannot successfully answer, when attacked by The Jupiter. In such matters it is omnipotent. What the Czar is in Russia, or the mob in America, that The Jupiter is in England. Answer such an article! No, warden; whatever you do, don't do that.

Just as authors are told not to read the criticisms; — but I never would believe any author who told me that he didn't read what was said about him. I wonder when the man found out that I was good-natured. He wouldn't find me good-natured if I could get hold of him.

CHAPTER LVI 'NOW WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?

That specially personal question which had been asked he did not answer at all.

The King's response was unequivocal: any proposition which tended to destroy the maxim that employees of the State must be members of the Established Church could not be discussed.

The question caught me off guard.

What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping Left and right.

But he who would provoke me should remember That those who rifle wasps' nests will be stung!

A little number?" "Fucked." "Thank you.

What are you doing, Dave?

The greatest danger is panic

Work is the best remedy for any shock

And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.

You can't have action without reaction.

Ésa era la respuesta formal; después de escucharla con tanta frecuencia, perdía todo sentido, reducida a una secuencia de sonidos sin significado especial.

I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.

A person angry, or laughing, or terrified, or jealous, will go stubbornly on into extremes of behavior impossible at another time;

Losing my temper will not help, he said and gave the door a vicious kick.

First she laughed, then she bawled me out and started crying. This was followed by an attack of hysteria with all the trimmings. What a conflict.

Second, I wish all my enemies would burst from the bellyful your last letter gave me.

Then she gave him a few good smacks in the face. These he accepted like a philosopher.