React
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
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React Quotations
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson
People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
Richard M. Nixon
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
Angela Merkel
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
Vivien Leigh
Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
Jimmy Fallon
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
Victoria Abril
And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.
Rod Steiger
They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.
Sarah McLachlan
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Jerzy Kosinski
The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Paul Haggis
Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
Isabella Rossellini
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Alice Cooper
When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
Keanu Reeves
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals
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React Translations
react in Afrikaans is reageer
react in Danish is reagere
react in Dutch is reageren
react in German is reagieren, reagieren, Reagiere
react in Italian is reagire
react in Portuguese is reaja
react in Spanish is reaccionar
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