When You Don't Respond Quotes

#1. When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

Carly Fiorina

#2. I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love.

Debasish Mridha

#4. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.

Suzanne LaFleur

#5. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.

Billy Graham

#6. Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

Jaime Lerner

#7. You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him.

Melissa Febos

#8. I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

Kara Walker

#9. People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#10. I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

Nathan Fielder

#11. I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

Janna Levin

#12. Why didn't you tell me?" Delia says, stung.
"Why don't any of us tell you anything?" I respond. "We love you.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Position without nagging or repeating yourself several times. If he asks, "Is something wrong?" take a breath and respond calmly. "Yes, something is wrong, but I'd like to talk about it later. I really don't want to talk about it now.

Sherry Argov

#14. With devotion at the center of your awareness, you don't have to refer to your past in order to make a choice of how to respond or react in any given situation.

Debbie Ford

#15. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.

Pamela Druckerman

#16. that in modern life we overuse the "fight, flight, or freeze" response, because we respond to many situations as if they are life-threatening when they are not. As a result, our nervous systems don't have time to recover, because we are activating this response too frequently.

Linda Lantieri

#17. I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

Elizabeth Banks

#18. Men and women that don't respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

Navi Rawat

#20. Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.

Diego Klattenhoff

#21. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Jack Canfield

#22. I don't eat breakfast. I know it's the most important meal of the day but my body doesn't respond to it well.

Mark Indelicato

#23. If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.

Chris Hedges

#24. I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

Terry Wogan

#25. Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

Paul David Tripp

#26. Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

Harry Connick Jr.

#27. When things don't go our way, we get to choose how we will respond. We get to choose our perspective. Will you focus on what you didn't get, or what you did get?

Victoria Osteen

#28. When one seeks assurance, there's none from those who respond, Now, don't you worry about a thing. If you weren't worried, you wouldn't have asked. If you are concerned, it's nice to know that those you query are, too. I'll take a worrier any day over a platitudinous reassurer.

Malcolm Forbes

#29. The public is never wrong. When people don't respond to what you do, they're telling you something loud and clear. You're just not listening.

50 Cent

#30. You know that look a cop gives you when he's so confused that he doesn't even know how to respond? If you don't know that look, it means you haven't had enough fun in your life.

Tucker Max

#31. 'Tell me about yourself.' When interviewers ask this, they don't want to hear about everything that has happened in your life; the interviewer's objective is to see how you respond to this vague yet personal question.

Travis Bradberry

#32. I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where they lead. But they accumulate and add up to something that enriches your later life or leads you to some new experience.

Paul Smith

#33. I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

Norman Finkelstein

#34. Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

Larry Norman

#35. I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

Mitt Romney

#36. It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. You know what 'fine' stands for, don't you?" When Jane didn't respond, Grace answered for her. "It stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional.

Ryan Winfield

#38. I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all ... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

Charles B. Rangel

#40. Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.

Lucas Neff

#41. We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

Woody Harrelson

#42. So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.

Marina Keegan

#43. When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.

John Bargh

#44. I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

Sheryl Swoopes

#45. I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

Meghan Daum

#46. I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

Jeremy Corbyn

#47. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

Jan Spiller

#48. The key question of our time is learning how to respond in love when people don't agree, without compromising our view.

Christy McFerren

#49. Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible.

Kelly Williams Brown

#50. Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

George Takei

#51. What is she to you?" she whispers. The real question and I know the answer even if I don't know how to say it. Drew's muffled voice rises up from the floor before I can respond. "Family," he says. And he's right.

Katja Millay

#52. When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

Edwin Lefevre

#53. Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...

John Geddes

#54. I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Mila Kunis

#55. I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'

Chuck Hogan

#56. I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Halle Berry

#57. Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That's not something that I respond well to.

Don Johnson

#58. Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

George Jones

#59. You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

Joel Osteen

#60. Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.

Raji Lukkoor

#61. Have you noticed the words which Old Testament people use when someone important calls them by name? They don't say "What?" or "Yes?" They answer with the curious sentence, "Here I am". So much is in that sentence: readiness to respond, a willing servitude, an offering of oneself to the other.

Walter Wangerin Jr.

#62. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Gerald M. Weinberg