Reaction Quotes

894 Reaction quotes by 752 unique authors

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but… — Henry Adams
Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness. — Jesse Jackson
Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… — George Orwell
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. — Samuel Johnson
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — Alfred North Whitehead
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. — Joseph Brodsky
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. — Dick Cavett
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for… — John Cage
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not… — Paul Hawken
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again. — Laura Marling
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction,… — Thom Mayne
Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer.… — Ron Pope
If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the… — Andy Partridge
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering… — Guy Ritchie
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going… — Stephen Root
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal… — Kushal Pal Singh
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just… — Devon Sawa
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. — Tracey Ullman
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening… — Aimee Mann
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. — Ivan Pavlov

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