Triggers Quotes - Page 4

• When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Hard

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• I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

  Ann Aguirre

  Thinking, Wreckage, Explosions

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.136, Penguin

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• When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Media, Law

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• For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

  Lynne Truss

  Pain, Book, Emotional

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.newyorker.com. 2003.

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• These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Wise, Book, Hands

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• You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

  Fiona Apple

  Gun, Blame

  Song: Limp, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999

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• No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-" She held her breath. "- an archangel loves true.

  Nalini Singh

  Legends, Able, Ambrosia

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.252, Penguin

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• I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

  Ralph Ellison

  Gun, Cop, Poet

  Ralph Ellison (1994). “Invisible man”, Random House Inc

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• That's all you get," said Alpharius, and split him in half. Alpharius sheathed his gladius, and dragged the sabre out of his torso. He tossed it away, and walked through the liter of bodies to where Namatjira was kneeling on the deck. "Please! My lord primarch! Please, I beg you!" Namtjira pleaded, his hands making a desperate namaste. Alpharius drew his boltgun. "Why?" shrieked Namatjira. "Why are you doing this? "For the Emperor," said Alpharius, and pulled the trigger.

  Dan Abnett

  Hands, Half, Body

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• As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Men, Age, May

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.105, John Wiley & Sons

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• ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

  Glen Cook

  Fighting, Men, Guy

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

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• When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite. Appetite and hunger are different. Appetite is the mental prompting that kicks the auto-response into drive so you actually reach out, take the food, put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. I learned this in my first psychology course. Eating isn't just a physical need; it starts in the mind, generating hunger, which then should trigger the body to ingest food. I have no sparks between these plugs.

  Julie Gregory

  Psychology, Mind, Body

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• Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fire, Religion, Coward

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

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• The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

  Louise Erdrich

  House, Revision, Family History

  Louise Erdrich (2009). “The Painted Drum: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Mean, Gun, People

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• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Inspiration

  Twitter post from May 18, 2015

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• There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

  Diablo Cody

  Strong, Emotional, Childhood

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• When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.

  Tim Ferriss

  Pain, Feet, Knees

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• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

  Daniel Goleman

  Fighting, Emotional, Flight

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• But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

  Evel Knievel

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• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  Harold MacMillan

  Safety, Might, Fingers

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• Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  Mehmet Oz

  Gun, Lifestyle, Genetics

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• If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Hunts, Ifs

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• Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

  Tammara Webber

  Alcohol, Criminals, Violence

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