Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.-Personal Revolutions - Oli Anderson
The fundamentalist burns with anti-intellectual zeal, and in reaction sophists are often swollen up with intellectualism. The fundamentalist and the sophist justify their excesses by the sin of their opposite. Fundamentalism and sophistry give piety and philosophy bad reputations with society. - John Mark Reynolds
My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. - Steven Spielberg
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. - Ezra Pound
As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God. - Andrena Sawyer
Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction. - Anonymous
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards. - Pollyanna Darling
An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need. - Shannon L. Alder
Failure is defined by our reaction to it. - Oprah Winfrey
Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words. - Carla Gipson Lizana
Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and complex mating instinct. - David Bajo
Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality. - Stewart Stafford
stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. - Linda Lantieri
Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Some say "fear even helps like; The flight or over love reaction but to me it is your loving heart to prove to prove it worthy. - Auliq Ice
Do to others as you would've them do to you. scientific fact prove that action make some reaction. Don't fuck with me, & I won't fuck with you - E.G
I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world. - Stephanie Ericsson
It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good. - Mohd Riyaz Ali
I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.[, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest] - Eugene V. Debs
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! - Mehmet Murat ildan
RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily - R.v.m.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - C.G. Jung
The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. - Noam Chomsky
Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything. - William Branks
This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them - Deborah Brodie
Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction! - Vadhan
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. - C.S. Lewis
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls." Czechoslovakian foreign minister to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938. - Jan Masaryk
Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning. - Unarine Ramaru
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. - Rita Mae Brown
A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons. - Gary Rohrmayer
the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."Chain Reaction, 23 - Thomas B. Edsall
Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion. - B.C. Sirrom
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. - Emanuel Ax
People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world. Of course, it`s the start of a brilliant world. - Ewan McGregor
Education is a chemical reaction between knowledge and the mind; the byproducts are new thoughts, new ideas, new perceptions, and new feelings. - Debasish Mridha
Life is a chemical reaction, it only requires balancing! - priyavrat gupta
Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily. - - RVM
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. - Isaac Newton
Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion. - Bonnie Myotai Treace
Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation. - Albie Sachs
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. - Jim Morrison
A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged! - Michele Jennae
It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know. - Shannon L. Alder
Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception. - Debasish Mridha
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries. - John Mark Reynolds
For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys. - Daniel Henderson
Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World. - John Maynard Keynes
Flame itself is something that produces light via a chemical reaction, its not an opaque object unless its a very sooty flame.May i not have sooth in me Lord. MAY I BE A LIGHT WHEREVER I BE - Mary Tornyenyor
The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got. - Shannon L. Alder
Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings. - Steve Maraboli
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. - Erich Fromm
What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!' - Richelle E. Goodrich
He was scanning her soul continuously and inevitably she became his soul stripper... I guess this is what you may call an action and reaction of their spirits - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Everything is about disclosure.... chemistry... love.... reaction... you can't do anything.......A pain... a biatch... pain the ass... two women... what next? - Deyth Banger
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it. - Jerome Groopman
Love is an attraction but not a reaction. - Debasish Mridha
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table that’s true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That’s the whole point, isn’t it? - Veronika Carnaby