Quotes About Response

Looks like Egor is a quick draw, Ms. Baird. There are pills for that, you know.

Though her breathing had gone shallow, she moved like lightning, her legs scissoring to take out those of the stupid, stupid man who'd stood so close to her.

We are defined by how we react to setbacks.

Broken men and women don't care who finds out about their sin; they have nothing to protect and nothing to lose. They are eager for God to be vindicated. David's response when confronted with his wrongdoing was that of a humble, broken man. And his was the heart that God honored. Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.

The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.

No cerne da condição humana, poderíamos dizer, há um pecado epistemológico – a recusa em reconhecer o que pode ser conhecido a respeito de Deus e, então, em responder ou reagir de forma adequada: "Tendo conhecimento de Deus, não o glorificaram como Deus, nem lhe deram graças" (Rm 1.21). Eles se envolveram em cegueira deliberada.

At the heart of the human condition, we might say, is an epistemological sin—the refusal to acknowledge what can be known about God and then to respond appropriately: "Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Rom. 1:21). They engage in willful blindness.

When we have been betrayed in our most basic human relationship—and that trust is never restored—how can we learn to trust ourselves to respond appropriately to betrayal?

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right. Lucy Scarborough Nancy Werlin

And they're angry, and they're afraid, and then things happen.

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

Screaming as they take a hit. Laughing as they deliver one.

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.

No, miltä näyttää?" hän kysyy. "Erinomaiselta, olette yksinkertaisesti taikuri!" "Olen pelkkä mestari," hän vastaa

it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.

Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Anazagasty couldn't agree more. "Confidence," he says, "isn't the absence of doubt, it's the way you respond to doubt.

Tod didn't laugh at the man's rhetoric. He knew it was unimportant. What mattered were his messianic rage and the emotional response of his hearers. They sprang to their feet, shaking their fists and shouting.

Shigure: We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.

As you well know, Polity or Prador intervention in the Graveyard is frowned upon,' said the drone. 'If Polity forces were to turn up here, then your king would have to respond, by which time the turd trajectory would be fanwards.

Mary was the first to respond in intimacy to the Father as she received Jesus into her womb. Her yes echoes down through history in our yes to the Father.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

Belief creates behaviors.