Response Quotes

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. (Ralph Bunche)
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. View quote
Charles Barkley
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. View quote
Colette
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. View quote
Indra Nooyi
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image. (Timothy Garton Ash)
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. View quote
Sun Tzu
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother. View quote
Melanie Klein
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. View quote
Tony Blair
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. View quote
Ulrich Beck
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. View quote
Atom Egoyan
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. View quote
Gavin Bryars
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. View quote
Luc Montagnier
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans. View quote
Parker Stevenson
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. View quote
Paul Samuelson
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional. (Germaine Greer)
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her. View quote
Valerie Solanas
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain. View quote
Bill Clinton
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet