The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must… — Clive Swift Copy Share Image
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan Copy Share Image
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
