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I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger. -- Steve Martin
nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him. -- Milan Kundera
There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all. -- Jerzy Kukuczka
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten. -- Elie Wiesel
Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response. -- Fanny Fern
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. -- Paul Farmer
The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!""You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that." -- Warren Ellis
I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response. -- Charisma Carpenter
Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies. -- Rosalind Wiseman
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always. -- Emanuel Ax
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!' -- Joyce Meyer
When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. -- Ann Hood
No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs. -- Vincent Nichols
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response. -- Al Lewis
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000. -- Patch Adams
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's. -- Tom Wolfe
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions. -- Chris Riddell
I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all. -- Jim Bolger
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. -- Jim Elliot
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. -- Indra Nooyi
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. -- Chaim Potok
If the response you finally receive from me is 'thanks but no thanks', then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You've got to trust me on this, and in this case take 'no' for an answer. -- David S. Rose
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. -- Alexander Mackenzie
It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'. -- Denis Dutton
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed. -- Nikola Tesla
And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens. -- Jan Brewer
I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response. -- Nicholas Sparks
When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'. -- Anne Fadiman
I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert. -- Lu Xun
The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features. -- Alice Dreger
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse. -- Henry David Thoreau
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. -- Margaret Sanger
When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything. -- Mike Piazza
That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing. -- Charles Bukowski
There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. -- Brendan Dooling
No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person. -- Susan Jeffers
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief. -- Dawn Johnsen
We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that. -- David Simon
I keep my eyes and heart bent toward Jesus, therefore no human response can distract me from the Kingdom agenda. -- Sho Baraka
The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response -- Barack Obama
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. -- Dan Brown
The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man. -- Ray Price
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself. -- Gaston Bachelard
Sometimes no words come as a response, only shapes spring to mind. But after you tell me you love me, I can't very well reply, Hexagon! -- Jarod Kintz
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side. -- Desmond Tutu
In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. -- C. S. Lewis
Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent. -- Stephen Levine
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) -- Voltaire
There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards. -- John Galt
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up. -- Stedman Graham
There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe. -- Ajahn Amaro
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

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