Quotes About Response

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

The fading of a memory or the losing of its affect depends on various factors. The most important of these is whether there has been an energetic reaction to the event that provokes the affect. By 'reaction' we here understand the whole class of voluntary and involuntary reflexes - from tears to acts of revenge - in which, as experience shows us, the affects are discharged. If this reaction takes place to a sufficient amount a large part of the affect disappears as a result.

I get annoyed whenever people try to be sympathetic, and annoyed when they don't.

First, it can never be something we do for God. Second, it is its own end. Third, it is a response to God's total character, more specifically to the triune God. First

Living the human values allows us to more fully understand the underlying reasons for someone's behaviour and why that person is acting in any particular way. When you live the human values, you can see more about a situation. If someone manifests behaviour in a way which we do not expect and our lives do not have the grounding which the human values provide, we do not know what to do or how to respond.

Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action

Uno no puede responder con nada a la ausencia.

Do you respond to every e-mail you get, Becky?" Luke turns, incredulous. "Do you have a fine selection of Viagra substitutes too?

There's silence, then the phone bleeps again with his reply:

Hello, Philip?" I say into the receiver—then immediately I wish I'd said something thrusting and impressive, like a simple "Yep.

Thanks," I say again. Then I glance at Alicia, and feel a little dart of triumph. She looks utterly deflated.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.

I would never have come if you hadn't called me here.

Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'