#respond

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#attack #did #fight #humiliation #rejection

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#constructing #correspond #knowing #less #means

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#believe #genuine #i #i believe #i believe the

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#confidence #created #crisis #hope #i

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#life #love #respond #response #then

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. ↗

— Owen D. Young

#emotions #human #human emotions #inflamed #markets

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#death #friendship #humanity #procrastination #weaknesses

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery. ↗

— Ted Allen

#best #cook #dishes #drudgery #foods

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

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