Quotes About Response

Since it's not really avoidable, I think the question is how to—if you like—turn [hatred] to advantage.... It's a bit like alcohol, if you like. It's a good servant, but it's a bad master.

My challenge: Name an ethical statement or action, made or performed by a person of faith, that could not have been made or performed by a nonbeliever. I have since asked this question at every stop and haven't had a reply yet.

John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.

did you just say 'gee whiz' to me? what am I, nine? I am a woman-

A guy who used to come in the bar told me once that if you go in someplace and they don't pay any attention to you, then start stealing stuff. They'll either start paying attention or you'll have something for your time.

Strum one chord on that thing, you bellowing cow, and I will beat you to death with it and dismember your corpse with the strings.

Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.

And Arya! He cringed

Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, "Now what?

Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, Now what?

Ample self-awareness is necessary for effective self-management because you can only choose how to respond to an emotion actively when you're aware of it.

can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.

The Führer's reply was to withdraw the German delegates from both the League of Nations and the Conference for Arms Limitation.

people are shaped by what happens to them and how they respond to it.

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived — not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

la logoterapia considera que la esencia de la existencia consiste en la capacidad del ser humano para responder responsablemente a las demandas que la vida le plantea en cada situación particular.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose que deja ton coeur avait repondu.

There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.

Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : ? The publisher's response: !

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.

The universe thinks and responds to your thinking, and this is the essence of what Hip Hop is for us; it is our relationship with divinity. Hip Hop is what we are doing with our portion of GOD.