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«It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.»
«Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.»
Author: Dorothy Thompson
| About:
Absence,
Peace
| Keywords:
aggressive, alternatives, passive, responding, responses
«The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both»
«Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.»
Author: Richard Mitchell
| Keywords:
at once, considered, emotional, inclination, judgments, literacy, portion, pursue, received, responses, schools, values, value judgment, worthy
«Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.»
Author: Roger Kahn
| Keywords:
afternoons, climax, deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, heaped, leisurely, onlooker, responses, Summer and, track, unchanging
«The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.»
Author: William Styron
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affected, antithesis, close down, depression, drained, evident, murk, paralysis, psychic, psychic energy, responses, sapped, sapping, saps, slowed, The Madness, throttle, throttled, zero
«Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!»
«Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Laughter,
Tears
| Keywords:
afterward, cleaning, exhaustion, frustration, frustrations, prefer, responses
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
conclusive, responses, unequivocal
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