Top 100 Reaction To Quotes
#1. When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
Penn Jillette
#2. Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.
Kevin Brownlow
#3. It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation.
Robert Conklin
#4. I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.
Lee Strobel
#5. Much of our inner dialogue is this constant reaction to experience by a selfish, childish protagonist.
Dan Harris
#6. Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel ... She needed that, to be caught off guard, to learn to trust her first gut reaction to her emotions. There had been no hesitation on her part - he had asked and her heart had sung out a big fat yes.
Erin McCarthy
#7. The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.
Jeff Sessions
#9. Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
Antonio Damasio
#10. I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.
Viktor E. Frankl
#11. The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point - your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.
Barbara Oakley
#12. 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
#13. The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.
Rei Kawakubo
#14. Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction to each successful picture to be as particular and unique as our verbal formulations.
Frank Gohlke
#15. There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.
Mary Balogh
#16. I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.
Jeremy Grantham
#17. In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual world.'
the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world
George Oppen
#18. We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.
Paul E. Miller
#19. I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.
Paul Bloom
#20. My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
Eminem
#21. You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'
Kim Edwards
#22. It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Robert Frank
#23. [Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
Clare Short
#24. Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech
Ethan Day
#25. When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Donald Hall
#26. If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.
Ben Kingsley
#27. When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?
Emily Blunt
#28. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
Eli Roth
#29. Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, No you can't.
Marc Maron
#30. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.
John Elder Robison
#31. I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#32. I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
George R R Martin
#33. Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.
Bonnie Myotai Treace
#34. Your instant reaction to being scared is to pull out a gun on someone? Damn girl, where are you from? Most girls I know squeal or some shit like that.
Abbi Glines
#35. As far as I know, scientists have yet to discover the proper reaction to I'm sorry.
Robyn Schneider
#36. The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Michael Medved
#37. I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.
Dhani Jones
#38. It could be argued that the reaction to a work of art is a creative act which is the counterpart of the action of the artist.
Frank Willett
#39. I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.
Larry Winget
#40. 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
#41. She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again.
Madelyne dared a quick look up and found Duncan was watching her intently. He looked so handsome.
She wanted him to be ugly.
Julie Garwood
#42. The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
Ansel Adams
#43. My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?
Marc Riboud
#44. The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.
The Prophet Of Life
#45. An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.
Krishna Das
#47. Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.
Albie Sachs
#48. It's not the end of the world.'
That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now.
Janet E. Cameron
#49. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
Viktor E. Frankl
#50. He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters.
Joseph Murphy
#51. Right now she looks calculating, staring at me like this. I want to grab my camera and take a picture of her. Something twirls in my stomach like ribbons, and I'm not sure if it's nerves or hunger or my reaction to the girl standing next to me.
Colleen Hoover
#52. Change is not a four letter word ... but often your reaction to it is!
Jeffrey Gitomer
#53. Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.
David Cook
#54. Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy Ghost
Sunday Adelaja
#55. Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.
Lemn Sissay
#56. Don't be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn't do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing ... The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.
Bill Johnson
#57. Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.
Amish Tripathi
#58. True worship is not merely an emotional reaction to external circumstances; true worship leads us beyond the emotion and experience into a deeper realization of the nature and character of God.
Teri Lynne Underwood
#59. The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
John Hersey
#60. In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
Tammy Bruce
#61. The way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself.
Stephenie Meyer
#63. People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.
Jon Favreau
#65. The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
James Stewart
#66. I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
Cate Blanchett
#67. Point is, I invented me ... maybe as a reaction to them ... definitely as a reaction to them. I am myself in spite of my memories.
Sarah Beth Durst
#68. I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
Timothy Garton Ash
#69. I learned at a very early age it's the reaction to the word, that gives it it's power.
The positive and negative affect on a single person is the driving force that created my love of writing.
Steven L. Hiller
#70. Ever since I was a child my reaction to the forbidden has been a stubborn desire to keep pushing: obstacles make something uncontrollably and deeply necessary.
Jessica Posner
#71. The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.
Tim Lebbon
#72. Remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.
Patrick M. Regan
#73. I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
Aimee Mann
#74. The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
Rob Bell
#75. If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.
Sebastian Junger
#76. Saints and Sinners may be separated by their actions, but they are united by their reaction to passion.
Gaiven Clairmont
#77. One could simply say it's a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie.
Jennifer Senior
#78. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead
Alan Watts
#79. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
#80. I don't want you out of my life... ever. I'm not scared of you at all. I'm pretty fucking scared of your dad, but that's a typical guy reaction to any girl's dad. -KANE
C.M. Owens
#81. You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.
Alison Mosshart
#82. The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.
Justin Vernon
#83. There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
Vince Gilligan
#84. For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.
Chuck Palahniuk
#85. There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Jim Hodges
#86. I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past.
Kate McGahan
#87. Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.
Joseph Hertz
#88. I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#89. Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Lara St. John
#90. I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
Will Self
#91. Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.
Charles W. Colson
#92. Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.
Lauren Mackler
#93. I have changed over time. That's what people do.
People aren't stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#94. I don't want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I'd rather bring something new to the table that's true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That's the whole point, isn't it?
Veronika Carnaby
#95. I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#96. People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!
Wendy Starland
#97. Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death
Tim Krabbe
#98. The drop from abundance to scarcity produced a decidedly more positive reaction to the cookies than did constant scarcity.
Robert B. Cialdini
#99. Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.
John Heider
#100. 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
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