“ In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt. ”
- James Laver- Copy
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“ The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction. ”
- John Gross- Copy
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“ It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. ”
- Robert Frank- Copy
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“ The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. ”
- Stephen Dunn- Copy
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“ All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. ”
- Graham Chapman- Copy
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“ American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ”
- Henry B. Adams- Copy
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“ You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything. ”
- Tom Monaghan- Copy
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“ When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, "I'm going to prove you wrong!". ”
- Picabo Street- Copy
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“ What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ”
- Helen Rowland- Copy
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“ We often select envenomed praise which by a reaction upon those we praise shows faults we could not have shown by any other means. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. ”
- Robert Redford- Copy
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“ The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ”
- Christopher Lasch- Copy
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“ As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. ”
- Michael Jordan- Copy
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“ People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold. ”
- Richard Thalheimer- Copy
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“ The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
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“ It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ”
- Anthony de Mello- Copy
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“ I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. ”
- Hayao Miyazaki- Copy
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“ Whenever I hear a dog continually barking, my reaction is one of relief-that it's not my dog making all that racket and inciting the neighbors to call the police. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ The American's conversation is much like his courtship. He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction; if the weather looks fair, he inkles a little more. ”
- Donald Lloyd- Copy
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“ The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. ”
- Lewis L. Dunnington- Copy
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“ For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect. ”
- Grace Speare- Copy
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“ Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ”
- Scott Reed- Copy
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“ Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: I said it was a good idea all along. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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