#reaction

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#colonization #europeans #every #indian #indians

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anyone #makes #plans #reactionary #revolution

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. ↗

— Robert Barany

#appeared #arm #complaint #experiment #later

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

#action #clearer #ebb #error #fear

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#immediate #immediate reaction #meditation #photography #reaction

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. ↗

— Hans Selye

#our #reaction #stress #us

I tend to be reactionary. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#reactionary #tend

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#connection #goal #hearted #high #just