Buttons Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  Rachel Caine

  Summer, Teacher, Crazy

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• I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

  Terry McMillan

  Want, Get Back

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.94, Penguin

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• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

  Robin McKinley

  Past, Night, Water

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winter, Night

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle Bra. "GPS," Ranger said to Morelli. "Probably I can find her breast without it," Morelli said. "But it's good to know there's a navigational system on board if I need it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sexy, Stupid, Gps

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• Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Hug, Special

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• Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose." I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes. "I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Lying, Flower

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.

  Esther Hicks

  Positive, Matter, Castles

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• A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Growing Up, Zippers, Grandparent

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.

  Pauline Collins

  Mean, Thinking, Often Is

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• Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Thinking, Agency, Humanity

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• Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

  David Doubilet

  Thinking, Pushing, Lighting

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Mistake, Golf, Men

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• I had a dream that she put her foot through my belly button and I was playing this little piggy went to the market just with her toes, just her foot was sticking out of my belly button and it was completely normal!

  Jessica Simpson

  Dream, Pregnancy, Feet

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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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• 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 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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• 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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