Buttons Quotes - Page 11

• Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Thinking, Humanity

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• Do you press the "pause" button - the "until" button in life by saying "I can't be happy until..."? All this accomplishes is a delay in your entry into your innate state of happiness, which is independent of outer circumstances. So press the "play" button and rejoice in the now-ness of the moment!

  Michael Beckwith

  Happiness, Independent, Play

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 08, 2011

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• Every important machine's got to have a big red button.

  Joseph DeRisi

  Technology, Important, Machines

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Eye, School

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• If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.

  Richard Alley

  Games, Video, Care

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• If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

  Karen Traviss

  Ignorance, Government, One Day

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• Perm in your hair or even a curly weave,
  Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve.
  I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,'
  Cause brothers been popping that game all day.

  LL Cool J

  Brother, Rap, Games

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• Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button.
  Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction,
  How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

  Common

  Rap, Oil, Hip Hop

  Common, Adam Bradley (2011). “One Day It'll All Make Sense”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

  Bernard Ziegler

  Jobs, Hero, Adventure

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• Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Eagles, Black

  Frederick Douglass (2000). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.

  Venus Williams

  Summer, Tired, Thinking

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• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Cameras

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• The lack of a delete button on the internet is a significant issue.

  Eric Schmidt

  Issues, Internet, Significant

  "Google's Schmidt: The Internet needs a delete button" by Shara Tibken, www.cnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

  Erica Jong

  Making Love, Pockets, Vans

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• In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.

  Jeffrey Skilling

  Running, Business, Yelling

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• Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

  Andy Warhol

  Photography, Photographer, Guilty

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• The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving Up, Men, Order

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• I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, People, House

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• There is no delete button for bigotry.

  Tom Brokaw

  Funny Graduation, Delete Button, Bigotry

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• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Dog, Horse

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [307]

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• You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

  Andre Agassi

  Success, Business, Believe

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• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  Eddie Condon

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

  Dalai Lama

  Time, Fighting, Technology

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Junk, Purpose

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