85 Quotes About Response

People often say things without thinking, without even realizing what they’re saying. So how can you avoid saying something insensitive or offensive? To help ensure that you don’t say the wrong thing, here are some of the most common types of responses that can offend people. You may also want to check out our list of the best insults for when you need to get under someone’s skin.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in...
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Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. T.F. Hodge
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Most of us have nicknames–annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true name? to respond when called. Ever wonder why?. Vera Nazarian
Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to...
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Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness. Sunday Adelaja
God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted.
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God is reciprocally responding to the cry of the afflicted. Sunday Adelaja
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For to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses." Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959( John Bowlby
When people ask me how come I have written over...
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When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time. Sunday Adelaja
To seek the praise of men as our motivation is...
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To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises. Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your approach and response to issues will determine how people...
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Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time. Bamigboye Olurotimi
To introduce to people a radically difference paradigm for life...
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To introduce to people a radically difference paradigm for life is to give the best response Sunday Adelaja
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that...
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
Change makers don’t think change making is someone else’s job,...
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Change makers don’t think change making is someone else’s job, but rather their calling to fulfill. They take responsibility and face challenges. Israelmore Ayivor
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Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path. Amit Ray
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I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly Criss Jami
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It’s very possible to live life without disliking anyone. It’s all vibration. We can get to the point where ‘dislike’ does not even register as an option in the default settings of our minds. Some may wonder, ‘What does it matter if I like or dislike people?’ In my perception, it matters greatly since dislike influences our entire energetic body. It becomes part of our vibrational aura, what we’re emitting and receiving in return from the world. How we respond to the world is how the world will treat us. Alaric Hutchinson
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People who suffer the most often inflict the most pain onto others. Compassion can be found through understanding this. When someone is internally suffering, sometimes the only reality they know is that of pain and thus their only knowledge is how to be a victim or an abuser. That’s all they are able to communicate. Holding onto the thorn of resentment does not help them or you, but fostering compassion and forgiveness will. Alaric Hutchinson
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Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life’s contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace. Alaric Hutchinson
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Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice. The mind is a powerful tool with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves. Alaric Hutchinson
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What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you. Patrick Rothfuss
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You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer. Patrick L.O. Lumumba
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When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own reality, as filled with compassion and kindness. I refer here to the idea of unconditional compassion and kindness. It means that we can choose to react to any situation, as negative as it may seem to be, with kindness and understanding. Whenever someone chooses to be rude to us, there is no need for us to respond with rudeness. A moment of self-reflection can remind us that fire fought with fire only increases the heat. The more often we practice our conscious positive response, to any situation, our automatic negative reactions are gradually being replaced with a conscious decision to act in the most loving way we can conceive at the moment. Raphael Zernoff
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The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us. Madeleine LEngle
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Sex was a practiced art to him. Each move calculated. His brain always worked while he performed, his body seducing his prey with ease, noting each response of his target. But in one moment, everything had changed. She swept him into a tidal wave of pure sensation, and he willingly let go and let her take him with her. Christine Feehan
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When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. Criss Jami
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When all seems hopeless and all has gone silent, that’s Destiny turning down the music so that all may hear our response to life’s great storms, giving our response the chance to echo throughout eternity with the level of greatness it deserves. A.J. Darkholme
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Know, child, that the One God–He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being. Vera Nazarian
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Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be. Raphael Zernoff
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We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, while some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you. Amalie Howard
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I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past. Kate McGahan
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Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help. Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now. Tamora Pierce
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The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God. Unknown
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For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction. John Kremer
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Don’t react to any fuming argument. Lailah Gifty Akita
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...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ... John Geddes
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Most of us have nicknames–annoying, endearing, embarrassing. But what about your true Vera Nazarian
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There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers. Sara Sheridan
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... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love. Raphael Zernoff
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Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action. Andrea Goeglein
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The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine. Eckhart Tolle
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God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions. Jared Brock
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Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..."" Alcoves, " Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue. Robin Hobb
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A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding Sunday Adelaja
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The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA. . Steven Magee
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Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response. Fanny Fern
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If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence. Steven Magee
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We do not have control over what happens to us in life, but we do have control over how we chose to respond. Bryant McGill
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Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of the events. Piyush Shrivastav
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Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events. Piyush Shrivastav
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Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm. Larry Crabb
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There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision. Sunday Adelaja
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The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given Sunday Adelaja
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You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control. John Mark Green
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It's not how well you communicate, but how intensely you have blended emotions with words that provides hints and triggers audiences mind to decipher and respond without your influence is what matters! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was. Kate McGahan
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DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time. Deborah Bray Haddock
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The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were good and those people were evil, and it kept going, because people always responded, and pretty soon the place was a roaring hell because no one took responsibility for what they did, and how it would drive others to respond. Paolo Bacigalupi
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When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control. Bohdi Sanders
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You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions. Michael Bassey Johnson
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It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere. Criss Jami
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The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. Anne Bishop
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How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text? I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need. Diana Athill
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When you realize that the feeling you have – is – the response you choose, you are free in that moment. Bryant McGill
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Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune. Bryant McGill
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...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ... John Geddes
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It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us. Michael Bassey Johnson
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A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results. Steven Redhead
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How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized. Stormie Omartian
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When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli. Bryant McGill
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response. Stephen Covey
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I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people. Adam West
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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott
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Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer
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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. Deepak Chopra
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Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. Lincoln Chafee
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I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously. Jeff Duncan
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Baking has always been one of my many hobbies. After I uploaded my first baking tutorial video, I got a really positive response from the online community, and they started to demand more videos like that. Rosanna Pansino
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Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place. Norman Foster
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I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. Liz Phair
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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. Meg Greenfield
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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. James S. Coleman
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When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response. Mohsin Hamid
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It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. Kirk Hammett
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues. Zac Goldsmith