Response Quotes
1424 Response quotes by 1112 unique authors
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When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include…
— David McCullough
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Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems…
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.
— Tanya Huff
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I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this. We ate dinner…
— Sloane Crosley
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I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no…
— Ayn Rand
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His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for…
— Jillian Michaels
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The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In…
— Neil Postman
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Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
— Julian Barnes
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The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm…
— C.S. Lewis
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Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and…
— Tony Dungy
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Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
— Sarah Kane
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A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter
— Gary L. Thomas
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There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential…
— Azar Nafisi
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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.
— Richelle Mead
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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only…
— Libba Bray
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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun…
— Andrea Camilleri
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment…
— William P. Young
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Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from…
— William P. Young
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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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