Quotation Explorer - 'Involuntary'

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] - Linda Lantieri
You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act. - Ambrose Bierce
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead. - Ambrose Bierce
Believing isn't a choice... belief is an involuntary response to something you've learned or experienced. - Neil Carter
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. - Mark Twain
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! - Theodor Herzl
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned. - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
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