Triggers Quotes - Page 11

• The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

  Mary Stewart

  Memories, Hair, Smell

  Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  War, People, Mind

  "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.

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• I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

  Donald Margulies

  Play, Scripts, Flip

  "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.

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• I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.

  Deborah Rhode

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice Scalia and Justice Alito about do you need a physical trespass into the home or onto the carriage in order to trigger the values of the Fourth Amendment.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Home, Order, Justice

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Strong, Love You, Heart

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Coming from a background as unique as mine, the first challenge is being able to identify chaos as chaos. For the first half of my life, I interpreted chaos as normal. Today, I am aware that I have triggers: a default way of thinking that is often not relative to the immediate moment. Therefore, in the midst of chaos, I have learned to relinquish all my premature cognitive commitments and become present.

  Romany Malco

  Commitment, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

  Brené Brown

  Smart, Training, Scare

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

  Jill Stein

  War, Hair, Nuclear

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

  Joe Torre

  Umpires, Sometimes

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• Because who can describe that look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

  John Irving

  Memories, Past, Hair

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.100, Random House

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• There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Song, Fall, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, Bullshit, Empowering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.

  Anna Journey

  Thinking, Views, Inquiry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually the things that happen in my life are an easy trigger for songwriting.

  Coeur de pirate

  Easy, Songwriting, Happens

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• It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

  Nick Lowe

  Gun, Light, Rays

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Humble, Museums

  "Museum Date". Interview with Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. September 7, 2008.

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• We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dust, Birth, Violent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Beauty, Light

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• But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

  Lionel Barber

  Real, Thinking, Unions

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". Interview with Scott Simon, wksu.org. June 11, 2016.

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• At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

  Ana Monnar

  Forgiveness, Heart, Compassion

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• Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Country, Peace

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• Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

  Helen Fisher

  Love, Men, Faster

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• The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Real, Autism, Environmental

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• ... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Light, Good Man, Environmental

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