Reflex Quotes

71 quotes by 63 authors

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized… — Alexander Herzen
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us… — Jimmy Carr
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease… — Theodor Adorno
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a… — Bharati Mukherjee
It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without… — Ricky Gervais
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. — Emma Goldman
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is… — Ernie Harwell
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. — Norman Vincent Peale
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really. — Ilona Andrews
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a… — Jim Butcher
Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is… — Karen Marie Moning
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. — Jim Butcher
Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. â€œHe was doing… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Joy is the reflex of terror. — Victor Hugo
Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm… — Laini Taylor
I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think… — Laini Taylor
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is… — Ram Dass

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