Top 100 Response To Quotes
#1. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18
Samantha Power
#2. It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
Julie Bishop
#3. I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.
Mary Beth McKenzie
#4. We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation.
Margaretha Montagu
#5. An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.
Jeffrey Archer
#6. Miracles occur in response to every problem, yet it is my faith and compassion that bring them forth.
Marianne Williamson
#7. There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.
Ajahn Amaro
#8. Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche
#9. It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
#10. biological, instinctual, unconscious response to threat or violation. And it can actually be the very thing that saves your life. In freezing, the human body enters an altered state in which little to no pain is experienced.
Rachael Maddox
#11. This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.
Edmund S. Phelps
#12. It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
Stephen R. Covey
#13. Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
Norman Foster
#14. The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it
Soren Kierkegaard
#16. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
Eugene H. Peterson
#17. The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform.
Ari Fleischer
#18. The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
#19. There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.
David Korten
#20. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...
Lauren Mackler
#21. Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup.
Richard Russo
#22. Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.
John Burnside
#23. Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
Damien Hirst
#24. God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.
John Stott
#25. I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things.
James Salter
#26. As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
Gavin Bryars
#27. One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful.
Susan Sontag
#28. Or else I would have sung a song
in response to what the male sex sings.
For our lengthy past has much to say
about men's lives as well as ours
Euripides
#29. God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
John Wesley
#30. Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.
Gideon Gono
#31. Nick was giving me the same look. And this time,instead of being taken aback or feeling squicky about it,my heart raced and my face grew hot. My body's response to the call of Nick.
Jennifer Echols
#32. I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person ... Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#33. I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.
Don DeLillo
#34. We may believe in the deity and the salvation of Christ, and acknowledge ourselves to be sinners in need of his salvation; but this does not make us Christians. We have to make a personal response to Jesus Chris, committing ourselves unreservedly to him as our Savior and Lord.
John R.W. Stott
#35. We tend to have a knee-jerk negative response to anything that seems to want or have control over us.
Sheena Iyengar
#36. ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD THINK?? What kind of Orwellian police state do you think I'm running here? Think whatever thoughts come into your thinking device, sir. (response to a reader asking what to keep in mind while reading Warm Bodies)
Isaac Marion
#37. It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
Paul Saffo
#38. Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
John Turturro
#39. You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.
Matthew Kahn
#40. Most people seem to think that organisms develop adaptive traits in response to environmental change. This is bullshit. The environment changes and those who already happen to have newly adaptive traits don't get wiped out.
Peter Watts
#41. Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they're] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
Gloria Steinem
#42. 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
#43. I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.
Johnny Depp
#44. As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#45. The best response to any difficult situation is to keep your calm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.
Lincoln Chafee
#47. People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
Arthur Laffer
#48. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.
Adolf Loos
#49. In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
John Thorn
#50. I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.
Felicity Jones
#51. Christmas is a response to bring mankind back, to restore some original intent that could never be even remotely restored by any effort of mankind regardless of how grand or majestic any such effort might be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
Wangari Maathai
#53. Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
Joel Fuhrman
#54. The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
Edward Snowden
#56. God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.
Matt Chandler
#57. For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and anything that comes our way. We have always known that there is a book for every occasion and every obsession. When in doubt, we are always looking things up.
Diane Schoemperlen
#58. We can't always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#59. Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.
Kitt Weagant
#60. Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.
William Bridges
#61. People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.
Andrew Aydin
#62. Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing ... John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
Alain De Botton
#64. All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
Gaston Bachelard
#65. In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.
Conan O'Brien
#66. Faith is also the means by which we live in response to the commands of God.
R.C. Sproul
#67. Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.
Lisa Kleypas
#68. We can never control change; we can only control our response to change.
Debasish Mridha
#69. What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
Bette Greene
#70. At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#71. Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier
#72. But by the grace of God I am what I am."
~1 Corinthians 15:10
"Paul was alluding here to his honest response to those who were constantly criticizing, slandering, and defaming him and his character. This was the 'thorn' in his side!!!
R. Alan Woods
#73. We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
David Simon
#74. Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
Christopher Buckley
#75. When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
Richard Norton Smith
#76. It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense,
Matt Taibbi
#77. I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
#78. Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want - in a vacuum - but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.
Angry Zodd
#79. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
Renee Fredrickson
#80. It is the human phosphene response to full-spectrum white, to pure sunlight.
Philip K. Dick
#81. Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.
Joyce Meyer
#82. When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
Rachel Held Evans
#83. Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
#84. When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.
Sameer Khan
#85. What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.
Steven Erikson
#86. Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows.
Rick Yancey
#87. We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.
John M. Gottman
#88. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought - every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.
Tom DeLay
#89. The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
Irving Kirsch
#90. What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?
Michael Z. Williamson
#91. Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.
Michael Graves
#92. The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Peter Lewis Allen
#93. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#94. Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.
Lisa Wingate
#95. There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all.
Jerzy Kukuczka
#96. While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
Ed Miliband
#97. I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.
Mario Bunge
#98. I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.
Richard Diebenkorn
#99. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
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