Top 400 Response Quotes

You never know how you’re going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.
Roger Andrew Taylor
I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I’ll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.
Adam Grant
When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.
Daniel H. Pink
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, ‘Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?’ I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
This country’s response to the coronavirus has been disastrous because of poor, incompetent leadership at the national and state levels. More than 4.6 million Americans have become infected with the coronavirus. Basic safety precautions have been manipulated into a political issue.
Jemele Hill
I’ve interviewed people where their response was literally one word for everything I asked. This didn’t help me get to know them, nor did it sell me on their skill set to help my company achieve its goals. I got nothing from them, which meant I had no way of knowing if they were really a good fit in the company.
John Rampton
To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
I used to send out emails to producers to collaborate and they’d give me nothing, not even a response. As soon as I started popping off, out they came!
AJ Tracey
I’m going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.
Scott Pruitt
If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‘What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?’
Mark Zuckerberg
The sources of Islamism’s strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.
Rene Girard
For me, there is nothing that encapsulates both our misguided response to the attacks of September 11th and the entire Iraq war itself more than a sense of lost opportunity.
Seth Moulton
When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.
Lynn Coady
The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health.
Lili Reinhart
The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there’s a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself – as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, ’causes’ fear.
Sam Kean
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled by activists, institutions, and mainstream journalists with every career-ending epithet from ‘Islamophobe’ to ‘Nazi.’
Eric Weinstein
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike
If the response to ‘Suite Francaise’ is any indication, there’s a great deal of curiosity about Nemirovsky, and the best way to deal with it is to produce another book. So much of her work has been unavailable, and we want to bring as much of it back into print as possible.
Sonny Mehta
So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.
John W. Thompson
A troll is only as powerful as your response to them. Once you respond to them or let them instigate you, then you’ve given them power.
Shenaz Treasury
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
It’s nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
Joe Cocker
The response Cena elicits from the crowd is unreal. And critically, AJ Styles has been considered one of, if not, the best in the world. Together, it’s magic.
Drew McIntyre
With his economic speeches in response to Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.
David Limbaugh
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
Gavin Bryars
Everybody who has watched ‘Raja The Great’ has loved the film. That’s why I am even more tensed. I want to see the audience’s response. I am nervous.
Anil Ravipudi
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
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers

There’s something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They’re inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.
Diablo Cody
Our response has been, ‘Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.’ That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico – and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country’s immigration response to the terror attacks.
Beto O’Rourke
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community’s armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
John Thorn
As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.
Eula Biss
In the theater, I could envision myself as wonderful because of the audience response to my lines.
Eve Arden
That always stuck with me. When I finished school in 2015, I started going to open calls in New York. But I was getting the same response every time: ‘Get your measurements down. Take X inches off your thighs and hips.’
Camille Kostek
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life’s cycle, not as a first response.
Margaret J. Wheatley
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.
Tom Robbins
I was born to do sitcoms, where you get an immediate response from the audience.
Kirstie Alley
‘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
I think ‘Ratcatcher’ broke even as a film, but it got a good critical response. I think that people knew that it wasn’t going to be a conventional piece of work, but they were still willing to invest in it. With this material you have to be quite courageous.
Lynne Ramsay
The United States is stepping up to lead the international response to the Ebola outbreak, and Congress will ensure that the president’s request is fully and quickly funded.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Because of the wonderfully positive response to ‘Life’s That Way,’ I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff – maybe another book. I don’t know. It doesn’t help that I’m lazy.
Jim Beaver
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
I was so overwhelmed by the amazing response I had from thousands of women saying they felt beautiful in my first collection, I wanted to design more clothes they could love themselves in.
Jameela Jamil
I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.
Paul Dano
‘Newton’ is a very Indian film but resonates with people all across. And that’s the reason it got great response at the film festivals.
Rajkummar Rao
I am heartened by the appointment of Dr. Birx as the Coronavirus response coordinator for the White House. Dr. Birx is a retired Army Colonel and immunologist who was appointed the U.S. Global HIV/AIDS coordinator under the Obama Administration.
Abigail Spanberger
The response to Season 1 of ‘Firing Line’ has been a thrill for everyone involved with the show.
Margaret Hoover
After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.
Daphne Oz