Top 100 Don't Respond Quotes
#1. Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.
Lucas Neff
#2. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
Marina Keegan
#3. I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.
Jeremy Corbyn
#4. Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible.
Kelly Williams Brown
#5. When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.
Carly Fiorina
#6. People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
Bill Sienkiewicz
#7. Men and women that don't respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.
Harry Connick Jr.
#9. There are many ways to turn someone to betray their country - money, ideology, compromise and ego work best. If they don't respond to those, a bullet will help seal the deal.
Khalid Muhammad
#10. And what if they don't respond to your call?" June says. I shoot her a quick smile. "Have some faith, sweetheart. The people love me.
Marie Lu
#11. Men don't respond to words. They respond to no contact.
Sherry Argov
#12. Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
Jamie Dornan
#13. The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening.
50 Cent
#14. I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.
Tom Stoppard
#15. That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi
#16. If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
Van Morrison
#17. Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".
Sherry Argov
#18. Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs
Robin Williams
#19. If you fuck her over, I'll cut off your balls and use them as cat toys, she hisses, and I see Wes flinch behind her as I fight my own, but I don't respond.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#20. I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
Tony Abbott
#21. I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
Dana Brunetti
#24. I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to ... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
Woody Allen
#25. There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
Larry Poons
#26. It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.
Jane Poynter
#27. I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.
Ashley Olsen
#28. Sup, Andrews?" he says. 'Sup? He's a white boy in a polo shirt. 'Sup is he's a poser. I don't respond.
Chelsea Fine
#29. Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
Frank Sinatra
#30. Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.
Larry Norman
#31. I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.
Mitt Romney
#32. It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#33. You know what 'fine' stands for, don't you?" When Jane didn't respond, Grace answered for her. "It stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional.
Ryan Winfield
#34. I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all ... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
Charles B. Rangel
#36. We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.
Woody Harrelson
#37. When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.
John Bargh
#38. I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.
Sheryl Swoopes
#39. I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.
Meghan Daum
#40. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.
Jan Spiller
#41. I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
Norman Finkelstein
#42. 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.
George Takei
#43. What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it. Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond. "Family," he says. And he's right.
Katja Millay
#44. When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.
Edwin Lefevre
#45. Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
John Geddes
#46. I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.
Mila Kunis
#47. I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
Halle Berry
#48. Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
George Jones
#49. You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.
Joel Osteen
#50. Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.
Raji Lukkoor
#51. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#52. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#53. The key question of our time is learning how to respond in love when people don't agree, without compromising our view.
Christy McFerren
#54. I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.
Elizabeth Banks
#55. When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love.
Debasish Mridha
#56. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.
Suzanne LaFleur
#57. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
Billy Graham
#58. Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.
Jaime Lerner
#59. You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.
Melissa Febos
#60. I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
Kara Walker
#61. I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
Nathan Fielder
#62. I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.
Janna Levin
#63. Why didn't you tell me?" Delia says, stung.
"Why don't any of us tell you anything?" I respond. "We love you.
Jodi Picoult
#64. Position without nagging or repeating yourself several times. If he asks, "Is something wrong?" take a breath and respond calmly. "Yes, something is wrong, but I'd like to talk about it later. I really don't want to talk about it now.
Sherry Argov
#65. With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.
Debbie Ford
#66. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.
Pamela Druckerman
#67. that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently.
Linda Lantieri
#68. I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.
Patrick Rothfuss
#69. I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat
#70. Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.
Diego Klattenhoff
#71. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Jack Canfield
#72. I don't eat breakfast. I know it's the most important meal of the day but my body doesn't respond to it well.
Mark Indelicato
#73. If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.
Chris Hedges
#74. I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.
Terry Wogan
#75. Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.
Casey Kasem
#76. It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.
Colin Firth
#77. Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him,
Laura Story
#78. I don't generally publicly respond to
reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers' responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.
China Mieville
#79. I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in terms of a beautiful moment than trying to figure out what beauty is or what people respond to.
Susan Rothenberg
#80. The only thing that you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that. I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am. Hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that, because I'm completely ignorant of the whole.
Robert Pattinson
#81. Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right.
Maurice Strong
#82. Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.
Paul David Tripp
#83. I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.
Charlotte Lamb
#84. I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
James Lovelock
#85. We react to fear when we are uncertain of the outcome, we respond to fear when we don't care about the outcome.
A. Dragonblood
#86. I don't usually feel, and so I don't know how to respond to a real feeling in my body instead of a manufactured one.
Lauren Blakely
#87. Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.
Jason Statham
#88. You tell the people the stories the best you know. If there is something you don't know, you be up front and make that clear. You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air. That's just my kind of old-fashioned news values.
Wolf Blitzer
#89. I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
Russell Peters
#90. I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
Steve Jobs
#91. I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#92. I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Stephan Jenkins
#93. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
Lance Henriksen
#94. It's a little scary, what you do."
As I tried to figure out how to respond, and with words as sharp and cold as the blade of a knife, Criminy said, "If you're scared of her talent, then you don't truly know what fear is.
Delilah S. Dawson
#95. Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.
Suzanne Venker
#96. Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#97. You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you?
Jodi Meadows
#98. Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
Kelly Jones
#99. Don't take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4.
Thomas Moore
#100. Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?
Nancy Burson
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