Reaction Quotes

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Everything is a reaction.

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.