Quotes of: Immediate-response Keyword

The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves, but rather from the influence of...

Atheist Responses to Religious Arguments

I refer to what is called mysterium iniquitatis, meaning, as I see it, that a crime in the final analysis remains inexplicable inasmuch as it cannot be fully traced back to biological, psychological and/or sociological factors. Totally explaining one...

Man's Search for Meaning

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism. Alcohol will slightly raise the ...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the account of the apple, the Tree of Knowledge, the Fall, and the expulsion from Eden.) In The Garden, God tells Eve and Adam that He has intent...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability factors for developing PTSD, at the expense of recognizi...

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

The Calling

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Dispelling Wetiko

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

Dirty Zero

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

An Experiment in Criticism

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

The Folded Clock: A Diary

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Frostbite

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Golden Fool

...you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years.

#GIRLBOSS

Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store — all of the responsibility and none of the authority.

Blended Families An Anthology

En uno, Einstein aparece sobre las palabras: la gravedad no es responsable de la caída del amor.

Before I Fall

I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.

In Bloom

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist.

Behind the Therapy Door: Simple Strategies to Transform Your Life

God Is Love But For This Love To Be Real To Us Depends Largely On Our Responses and Reactions to Him.

The Best Option

My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.

Beautiful Quotes

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?