Reaction Quotes

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Evil

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
Wade Boggs

Positive, Attitude, Thoughts

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.
Bruce Barton

Change, Hope, Fear

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Two, Both, Meeting

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

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

Money, Attention, Happened

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato

Direction, Opposite, Increase

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

Change, Direction, Whether

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton

Action, Equal, Opposed

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

Against, Boat, Current

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein

Funny, Men, Strong

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden

Best, Giving, Give

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray Bradbury

Girl, Short, Her

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

Learned, Matter, Whatever

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
Tertullian

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

Anger, Thought, General

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Age, Nothing, Another

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
Jim Carrey

School, Friends, Reason

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
Dick Van Patten

True, Loyalty, Friends

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
Alanis Morissette

Life, Men, Anger

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Meditation, Drawing, Immediate

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
Christina Aguilera

Life, Live, Someone

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein

Action, Equal, Opposite

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
Ayrton Senna

Down, Different, Off

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
Leon Trotsky

Nothing, Fascism, Capitalist

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger

War, Patriotism, Away

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.
Edwin Louis Cole

Results, Reward

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke

Good, May, Impossible

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