148 Quotes About Reactions

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

Some only live on your reactions, let them starve.

Our reactions to most things are muddier than we admit. Yours don't have to be all good or all evil. They just are what they are.[Cole Doherty, to June Briscoe]

Russian Dolls: The more we stay layered up, the more we stay reactive. Instead of healing, our hardnesses bump into one another. We knock each other off balance, intentionally or not. That might sometimes peel away a little paint, making a crack in an outer façade. But those cracks allow light and insights in. And out.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.