response quotes

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.