Knee Jerk Reaction Quotes

#1. I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Spike Jonze

#2. Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

Ray Dalio

#3. It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

John Hawkes

#4. All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights ... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.

Dave Brat

#5. I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.

Nikki Sixx

#6. Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

Anthony Fauci

#7. Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Douglas Hurd

#8. In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

Junot Diaz

#9. I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

Jeff Probst

#10. We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

Barry Ferguson

#11. Mr Nobley: Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return.

Shannon Hale

#12. The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

Georg Brandes

#13. Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

Charles Kennedy

#14. Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Amelie Mauresmo

#15. A novel is born several times and dies several times, before it takes its final life form.

Manjiri Prabhu

#16. I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

Brigitte Bardot

#17. Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

Chris Colfer

#18. He connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days.That discovery excited him so much more than any of his other hair-brained undertakings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Anne Carson

#20. In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

Rajneesh