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Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art. -- Pablo Picasso
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. -- James Joyce
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. -- Victor Hugo
The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction and: as you sow, so shall you reap. -- Sham Hinduja
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. -- Isaac Newton
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. -- Hans Selye
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure. -- Marcel Duchamp
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -- Carl Jung
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. -- Wade Boggs
Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction. -- Sylvester Stallone
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
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter. -- Yakov Smirnoff
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then. -- Alice Cooper
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
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! -- Anthony de Mello
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
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. -- Penn Jillette
You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction. -- Pharrell Williams
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
We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort. -- Stella Young
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love. -- Wayne Dyer
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest. -- Randeep Hooda
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.
I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to. -- Karan Johar
When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling. -- David Henrie
To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. -- Drew Houston
Every action triggers a reaction. -- C.G. Watson
Any reaction is better than none. -- Gavin Rossdale
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. -- Leon Trotsky
Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction. -- I. A. Richards
Every chemical reaction has a transition state. -- Derek Harold Richard Barton
Every chemical reaction has a transition state. -- Derek Harold Richard Barton
You don't reward reaction; you reward results. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction. -- Bob Woodward
Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength! -- Eckhart Tolle
Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness. -- Jesse Jackson
Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal. -- Humphrey B. Neill
Action and reaction are equal and opposite. -- Gertrude Stein
Faith is your reaction to God's ability. -- Zig Ziglar
The first reaction to truth is hatred. -- Tertullian
For every action, there is a reaction. -- Albert Einstein
Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth. -- Lemn Sissay
Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue. -- Stefan Molyneux
One action produces a reaction; that is karma. -- Thubten Yeshe
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction -- Isaac Newton
Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction. -- Tony Randall
A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple. -- Marsden Hartley
Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible. -- Amelia Earhart
Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction. -- Joel Stein
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. -- Winston Churchill
The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion. -- Noam Chomsky
The reaction you got was the communication you intended. -- Werner Erhard
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. -- Rufus Choate
Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you. -- Joyce Meyer
I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me. -- Veronica Roth
[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming. -- Clare Short
Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction. -- Maria Montessori
The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction. -- Dominic West
I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right. -- Kiana Tom
An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
Our reaction to any situation will determine the outcome. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation. -- Robert Conklin
Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. -- Bernard Berenson
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. -- David Cook
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. -- Tracey Ullman
Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction! -- Vadhan
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. -- Rita Mae Brown
There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction. -- Jack Canfield
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. -- Thomas Szasz
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. -- Yoko Ono
reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative. -- Elizabeth Janeway
It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction. -- Julie Benz
I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction. -- Andruw Jones
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense. -- Kathy Acker
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. -- Joseph Brodsky
Mindfulness and awareness is the bridge between reaction and conscious choice. -- Hal Tipper
Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition. -- Dov Davidoff
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth -- Pema Chodron
Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's. -- Jacob Frank
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. -- Ivan Pavlov
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. -- William James
My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction. -- Stephanie Miller
Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure. -- Richard Schiff
Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance. -- Tim McIlrath
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction. -- Emanuel Ax
If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. -- Plato
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. -- Robert Frank
Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. -- Warren Buffett
No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. -- Li Mu
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. -- Francois Furet
As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction. -- Paula Gunn Allen
An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction. -- Greg Walloch
I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees. -- Joyce Giraud
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. -- Jim Hodges
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors. -- Barry Lyga
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. -- Mick Jagger
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all. -- Frank Iero
It is a simple chemical reaction that has nothing to do with fusion. -- Nathan Lewis
FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH -- Jim Palmer
The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt. -- Hooman Majd
Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us. -- Spencer Rascoff
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in. -- Janet Reno
Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction. -- Ray Davies
-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life. -- Lanie Bross
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. -- Hans Hofmann

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