Quotes About Response

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an iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.

Maybe, maybe not. You might be surprised. But, win or lose, they'll've set an example by trying— which is more than anyone's ever done. Gives an old man hopes of seeing the War die before he does. Word of this gets out, maybe nobody'll answer the call to the next Gathering.

Be the Ambulance. Make toast.

We all do jerky things," she assures me. "It's what you do next that matters.

And believe me, it's not—repeat, not—because Aldo asked me to the Fall Ball, which is this big dance they throw before Thanksgiving break.

Tu quoque is the best defense.]

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

I hate your reasons. I don't want reasons. If you see somebody in pain, people like you reason and reason. You say - pain is a good thing, perhaps he'll be better for it one day. I want to let my heart speak... Yes. At the end of a gun.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched.

Kaye glared at him for a moment, both challenged and exasperated. "We don't have to posit self-awareness, conscious thought, to have an organized network that responds to its environment and issues judgments about what its individual nodes should look like," Kaye said.

I wondered if one's life history was the result of world-lines collapsing in response to simple force of character. The dilemma had not been solved in a thousand years of human philosophy.

There's no meaning to be found in tragedy. Only in our response to it.

Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word. It's how we respond that defines us.

like Poe, she was what was referred to as a "victory kid," one of the hundreds of millions—if not billions—of sentients who had been conceived in response to the Empire's fall.

Words didn't have any impact on Albert Haight. He saw them as obstacles to dodge or bounce from his head like a soccer ball. To the gut. To where it hurts. "Don't do this," she said

Kathy," she repeated. "Can you hear me?" Kathy nodded and her eyes rolled backward.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

His eyes flickered a tiny, hopeful smile in response, but doubt quickly smothered it.

They became demi-heroes, and were moved to respond with special sales, reduced prices, and a carnival atmosphere. The ghetto was a living organism: to counter external threats, it responded with the antibodies of courage, solidarity, and that desperate, magnificent love we usually call the survival instinct.

I saw that liberated, unconstrained spirit wherever I looked, and I found myself responding to it with the whole of my heart.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.