#reaction

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays. ↗

— John Hersey

#before #beta #body #bomb #dealing

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#boring #create #dangerous #everybody #likes

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. ↗

— Larry Wall

#architecture #came #coming #computer #computer science

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#better #chemical #continued #control #detailed

All adventure is now reactionary. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#now #reactionary

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#different ways #hong #hong kong #i #i can

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#dead #fear #men #only #reactions

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part. ↗

— George Carey

#any #church #friends #got #homophobic

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. ↗

— Charles Eames

#chain #each #leads #next #reaction