Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

When something catastrophic happens to someone you love, or a situation arises that affects people you love the most, if that's the first time you've been in that position, you never really know what to do.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

People react not very wisely sometimes.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

When I found out that I made it to the Season 11 finale, I was so shocked that if you went on YouTube and re-watch the Top 3 Results Show, you will see my face looked like a bus hit it.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.