Quotes About Response

To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.

Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering and I responded… sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.

Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

There are some who feel like—that if they attack us—that we may decide to leave prematurely…. My answer is, bring 'em on.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.

I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I]n the face of every image we have to choose whether, or how, to make it participate in our knowledge and action. We can accept or reject this or that image; take it as a consoling object or as a worrying object; make it ask questions or use it as a ready-made response.

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.

People who are car-sick are never sea-sick,' explained Mother.

Thus God calls us, invites us, and even commands us, but God does not control our response. We alone bear responsibility for the choices we make.

People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.