The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. — Francois Furet Copy Share Image
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can't change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.” — Dr. Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There are very serious forms of, and reactions to, sibling victimization. — David Finkelhor Copy Share Image
Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can. — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder. — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new… — George Porter Copy Share Image
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets,… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal… — Ernst Stuhlinger Copy Share Image
Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in… — Andrea diSessa Copy Share Image
There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's… — Rob Enderle Copy Share Image
There is reason to be scared. Look at what has happened with fundamentalism - this is a reaction against modernity. It happens… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
