Quotes About Response

Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.

And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

Attention without feeling is only a report.

Can you do me a great favor?" he asked. "I would be most grateful." "Of course," said Annie.

Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.

Every now and then in life, a compliment is tucked so seamlessly into a insult that it's impossible to know how to react.

The body's response to this wild, Valsalvic seesawing of the vital signs can throw off the electrical rhythm of the heart. The resulting arrhythmia can be fatal. This is especially likely to happen in someone, like Elvis, with a compromised heart. Fatal arrhythmia is the cause of death listed on Presley's autopsy report.

It pulls a "gape": mouth opened wide, tongue stuck out to eject the offending food. (Humans do this too. The scientific term here is "the disgust face.")

choaked my utterance. I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rung

Who laughs in front of a gun? Only those of our species.

following the Kursk disaster].. Putin appeared on CNN's Larry King Live. When King asked What happened?, Putin shrugged, smiled - impishly, it seemed - and said It sank.

we are also creatures with a fear of approaching others because we are afraid of the unknown and cannot totally predict how a stranger will respond to our approach, or to the first words that pour out of our mouths. This oxymoronic fact made me wonder why and how can we get past this strange awkwardness or discomfort. After

I'm curious, what made you want to respond the way you did?" as opposed to "Why did you respond that way?

If she replies, then it's okay to talk to her. If she just smiles, then move on and remember IT'S NO BIG DEAL, or you

You have no idea how they will respond to you.

Nod to show that you are listening and understand

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

innovation is organic because it must be a response to an authentic and free desire, not what somebody in authority

No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want, he said. Braiiinnnnssss, we said in unison.

People were freaked out, but they showed it in weird ways. Back home, people would have been weeping and doing a lot of very public group hugs. At Wexford people just aggressively pretended nothing had happened.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh David said. It was as good a summary of the situation as any. oh, Stevie said. Again, this about summed it up.

Stevie meant to smile and nod, but she ended up enacting the shrug emoticon.

There was no action she could take against the men of undeined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was nothing she could say to them - nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.