Quotes with reaction

  • I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
  • Originality begins in our reaction to the necessary events of life, to things that come up hard against us.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
  • The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
    Invader (1995)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
    Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Scott Reed Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Plato Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Leon Trotsky Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Grace Speare For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bryce Harper I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Betty Ford I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Arthur Keith In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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