Reflexively Quotes

#1. It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.

Karen Russell

#2. Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

Alex Linder

#3. If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

Michael Pare

#4. Michael put the paper down and leaned across the table toward me, unexpectedly intense. "What do you want?"
"I already ordered an espresso," I answered, reflexively leaning back.
"No, I mean what do you want from life?"
"Good morning to you, too. Isn't it a little early for philosophy?

Myra McEntire

#5. The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

#6. [I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that

Tim Kreider

#8. The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to "protect the environment."

David Bergland

#9. When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

Kim Elizabeth

#10. Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _

Chuck Klosterman

#11. I keep wishing, reflexively, for a glimpse of the future, so I'll know what to do. But I don't kid myself. I have to feel my way forward blindly. I try not to be afraid. Even if you know what's coming, you're never prepared for how it feels.

Natalie Standiford

#12. I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.

Robin Morgan

#13. Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

Conrad Black

#14. Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

Ron Paul

#15. When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Dani Shapiro

#16. In some African tribes, this would make us married," a dry male voice returned. Angel looked up. His arms reflexively gripping her waist, a tall, lean man with windswept black hair looked down at her with amused emerald eyes. "In others, it would mean we're being prepared for supper

Suzanne Enoch

#17. Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

Richard Neal

#18. driving the parties into the pockets of concentrated capital, increasingly financial: the Republicans reflexively, the Democrats - by now what used to be moderate Republicans - not far behind.

Noam Chomsky

#19. Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Anthony Giddens

#20. She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.

Frances Hardinge

#21. You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Lee Child

#22. All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

Gary Hamel

#23. The truth is the most desirable woman in the world and we are the most jealous lovers, reflexively denying anyone else the slightest glimpse of her.

Tana French

#24. In the service of statist sameness, the male-vs.-female biological imperatives are rapidly, if reflexively, being dissolved. Dissolving 'The Constitution of Man' is dangerous to civilization, for a subservient, effete civilization will not survive the onslaught of Islam.

Ilana Mercer

#25. It's said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it's because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

Terry Teachout

#26. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that.

Mark Halperin

#27. We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

Sonia Sotomayor

#28. Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Frances Hardinge

#29. When he didn't want to take his medicine, I spooned it into his mouth, then blew in his face, which causes a person to reflexively swallow.

Anna Banks

#30. Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

Spike Milligan

#31. Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

Marilyn Monroe

#32. True admiration," said Mrs. Keith, "is one half respect and the other half self-denial.

Henry James

#33. You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama. You simply learn how to release the tendency for getting drawn into the energy.

Michael A. Singer

#34. I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Robert Morgan