Quotations
Quotes:
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. (Principia Mathematica)
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
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.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden
President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
My initial reaction is that I do not believe it is true. But the integrity of the sport is bigger than anyone playing it and if someone undermines the integrity of a sport then I find that offensive. (on Rusedski's drug trial)
View quotes by Andrew Castle
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.
View quotes by Ade Akinbiyi
He turns round to Kaluwitharana and asks him what I'm bowling. Kalu says offspin. Border hits the next one, but he's not confident. He asks Dean Jones, the non-striker, what I'm doing, and he says legbreaks. [on Border's reaction to playing him]
View quotes by Muttiah Muralitharan
The real fun part was trying to cast our women. They asked who I would like and my first reaction was Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon and Halle Berry. The first three names I threw out ended up being in the film
View quotes by Larenz Tate
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first 10 minutes I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
View quotes by Erica Jong
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
View quotes by Henry Adams
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
View quotes by Helen Rowland
The kind of attacks made for instance against me - the Welsh windbag - did produce in the Labour movement an over-reaction which was understandable.
View quotes by Neil Kinnock
The reaction he (Hodgson) has had to face, while predictable, has been blown out of all proportion. [on England v France in the 2005 Six Nations]
View quotes by Jonny Wilkinson
I like any reaction I can get with my music.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
At that moment I hated Gordon Banks more than any man in soccer. [on Pele's reaction to his save]
View quotes by Simon Kuper
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.
View quotes by Martin Luther King Jr
The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.
View quotes by Tony Banks
The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.
View quotes by Tony Banks
I had to double the dose of my anti-inflammatories the last few days because my shoulder was painful, and it's probably I just had a very bad reaction to that
View quotes by Justine Henin-Hardenne
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