Reaction Quotes

894 Reaction quotes by 752 unique authors

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated… — William Wordsworth
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. — William James
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana
There's definitely a lot of trash that comes with the prize of being famous. It's a nice gift, but there's a lot of wrapping and… — Bill Murray
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. — Hans Hofmann
If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher. — Nirmala Srivastava
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the… — Theodore Dreiser
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art. — Pablo Picasso
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because… — Mao Zedong
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there… — Myron Scholes
I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but… — Taylor Wilson
There has been so much underestimating of animal cognition that to perhaps overestimate it, as I probably do, is probably a healthy reaction. — Frans de Waal
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist… — Arne Glimcher
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and… — George Ayittey
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them. — Tommy Wiseau
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to… — Bayard Rustin
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. When I was younger, I was terrified… — Alanis Morissette
The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt. — Hooman Majd
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness… — Chuck Palahniuk
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do… — Lionel Barber
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity… — Miguel Syjuco
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain… — Mustafa Akyol
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and… — Leo Fitzpatrick

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