Responses Quotes
199 quotes by 180 authors
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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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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret…
— Alain de Botton
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This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's…
— Margaret Atwood
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I am about to impart to you the sacred words my father gave to me. It’s the five responses that will get you out of…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our…
— Alain de Botton
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An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math,…
— Thomas Moore
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
— Thomas Ligotti
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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to…
— John Piper
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Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your…
— William P. Young
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I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.
— Michael Connelly
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For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental…
— Jared Diamond
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It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment…
— Harlan Coben
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
— R C Sproul
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Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.
— Jeff Lindsay
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The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the…
— William Styron
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When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge…
— Hope Edelman
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a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
— Orson Scott Card
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The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a…
— Bill Murray
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It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship,…
— Judson Cornwall
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I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection…
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
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