Elicits Quotes

#1. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

Brendan Dooling

#2. Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.

Sam Owen

#3. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

Jon Weisman

#4. Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

Mario Bunge

#5. We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

Anthony Marra

#6. Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Don Paterson

#7. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Elie Wiesel

#8. A drunkenness brought on by gulped beer on an empty stomach produces raucous sniping, atrocious singing, nausea. But a tizzy induced by impeccable wine slowly sipped during a marvelous meal and burnished by a superb brandy elicits miraculous conversation.

Keith Miller

#9. All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#10. As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Jim Hodges

#11. Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

Fred Brooks

#12. Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Martha Beck

#13. As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

Felix Dennis

#14. It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

Erich Fromm

#15. Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's.

Natasha Leggero

#16. Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.

Robert Reich

#17. The owner of the boom box marches over and turns the music down. He shrugs when he sees me staring. "Hey, noise pollution elicits fewer phone calls to the police than screaming and battle sounds. At least, that's the case in Berlin," he says.

Amy Plum

#18. A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

Marcel Proust

#19. In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

C.S. Lewis

#20. To serve means to work alongside the neediest, first of all to establish a close human relationship with them, based on solidarity. Solidarity - this word elicits fear in the developed world. They try not to say it. It is almost a dirty word for them. But it's our word!

Pope Francis

#21. What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

David Horsey

#22. I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

Liz Phair

#23. The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts ... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?

Rick Strassman

#24. One of the things people need to realize about sugar is that it is essentially a drug, something that elicits an emotional and automatic response in the body that is not healthy and can erode your discipline as a healthy eater.

Nick Meyer

#25. How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#26. Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

Seneca.

#27. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

Dennis Oppenheim

#28. I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.

Shelley Berkley

#29. Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

Saint John Chrysostom

#30. I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

Simon Cowell

#31. Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

Yasunari Kawabata

#32. 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.

James C. Dobson

#33. Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

Diane Dreher

#34. People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

Kate Bush

#35. I love you. More than I ever thought it was possible to love someone. Siamese twin lovers, identical wombs, whatever the hell you called it. All I want in life is to drive out of this horrible, soul-destroying state with you someday.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#36. Mr. President, you're entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.

Mitt Romney

#37. Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

Michele Bachmann