Quotes About Response

In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people

Once violence is understood to be a behavior, not a pathology, the fact that it was responsive to social pressures no longer seems mysterious.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Sacrificial religion was all exposed in Jesus' response to any mechanical or mercenary notion of religion, but we soon went right back to it in many Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant forms, because the old ego will always prefer an economy of merit and sacrifice to any economy of grace and unearned love, where we have no control.

It is the things that you cannot do anything about and the things that you cannot do anything with that do something with you.

The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.

As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, "Love responds to Love alone" and has little to do with duty, obligation, requirement, or heroic anything. It is easy to surrender when you know that nothing but Love and Mercy is on the other side.

Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.

La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.

Laughter is often a more complex and thoughtful emotional response than tears, though we seem to believe that being moved to tears is somehow more noble

unconscious but powerful identification of violence against other human beings as the most appropriate response to the disastrous conditions of their lives.

Some days there were more police in schools than students. Rumors spread that armed black marauders would ride through their neighborhoods shooting whites at random; that blacks were carrying knives and razors to school to turn girls' rooms into rape rooms. So whites started carrying them first.

Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.

I'd made water shoot out of the bathroom fixtures. I didn't understand how. But the toilets responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing.

I'm Crusty, he said, with a tartar-yellow smile. I resisted the urge to say, Yes, you are.

Should I get you a shovel so you can dig that hole a little deeper?

You missed a pedestrian," I said. "You want to go back and hit her?

I was proud that the four of us responded as a team. In perfect unison, like a well-oiled combat machine, we turned and ran for our lives.

The next millisecond demonstrated how much faster I can think than react. First I thought Blitzen had spotted an actual duck. Blitzen likes ducks. Then I realized he was telling me to get down, which is hard to do when you're the last in a line of three people on horseback.

He had a wonderful way of drawing them out with his placid responses (Hm? And Yes, yes and I see), not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said t exist.

We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active and change something in order to survive.

Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.

and if you think thats what i'd do you can fuck off back.

It was the first kiss of her life to which her nature had really responded. It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.