What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.
There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
Joy is the reflex of terror.