React Quotes - page 5

There was Johnson (Lyndon) who had compromised too many contradictions and now the contradictions were in his face: when he smiled the corners of his mouth squeezed gloom; when he was pious, his eyes twinkled irony; when he spoke in a righteous tone, he looked corrupt; when he jested, the ham in his jowls looked to quiver. He was not convincing. He was a Southern politician, a Texas Democrat, a liberal Eisenhower; he would do no harm, he would do no good, he would react to the machine, good fellow, nice friend -- the Russians would understand him better than his own. ... Johnson gave you all of himself, he was a political animal, he breathed like an animal, sweated like one, you knew his mind was entirely absorbed with the compendium of political fact and maneuver. (Norman Mailer)
I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. View quote
Henry Miller
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Avoid all eye contact Do not react Shoot the messengers This is a low-flying panic attack. View quote
Thom Yorke
There is nothing better than being out there when the game is on the line; only now, I get to see what my players will do. How will they react? Retirement is fine for some people, but I got bored. I'm used to more of a fast-paced life. View quote
Larry Bird
If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. View quote
Emil Cioran
I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad. View quote
Emil Cioran
When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is the poets and painters who react instantly to a new medium like radio or TV. (Marshall McLuhan)
The progressive development of moral and intellectual man has scarcely occupied their [scientists] attention; nor have they noted how the faculties of his mind are at every age influenced by those of the body, nor how his faculties mutually react. View quote
Adolphe Quetelet
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt. View quote
Isabella Rossellini
I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react. View quote
Alan Moore
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. View quote
Scipio Africanus
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feeling. View quote
Dale Carnegie
If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys. View quote
Yanni
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women's words-speaking and writing-as if they were acts of violence' sometimes men react to women's words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men-control, violence, insult, contempt-that no threat seems empty. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I didn't think anyone outside of LA would read Less Than Zero. I thought The Rules of Attraction would be a huge hit. I assumed people would react to American Psycho as a comedy. I thought I showcased some of my best writing in The Informers. And I was totally caught off-guard by the amount of good reviews and bad reviews Glamorama elicited. I've stopped guessing because I'm always wrong. And quite honestly: I don't care. Writing the book is the main thing. Waiting for a reaction: a waste of time. But, obviously, I hope people respond to the book in a favorable way. I don't want people to dislike it. But I don't really mind if they do. (Bret Easton Ellis)
The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it. View quote
Margaret Cho
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation. View quote
Janet Yellen
I fought the director for a week to stay blonde, but, eventually, I had to give in. It's amazing how differently people react to you if you're not a blonde. Shortly after I'd dyed it, I walked past a building site and got no reaction whatsoever, and then I tried to get a cab and not one stopped. Getting a cab in London is difficult at the best of times, but being blonde certainly helps. View quote
Alice Evans
We have to oppose the widespread view that if the Russians are provoking us, we shouldn't react because that could be perceived as a confirmation of Poland's alleged russophobia. Let's remember that Russia is not only provoking us but also checking how far it can go. Recently it went definitely too far. We must react when we have to do with obvious nonsense, like the Russian foreign ministry's recent statement that Yalta resulted in a strong, free, and democratic Poland. View quote
Lech Kaczyński