Triggers Quotes - Page 14

• [Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Unstable

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  Adam Ant

  Going Away, Malaria, Medication

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• Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Creativity, Tools

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimistic, People, Leader

  "Daniel Kahneman’s Gripe with Behavioral Economics". Interview with Jesse Singal, www.thedailybeast.com. April 26, 2013.

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• You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.

  Wyclef Jean

  Female, Might, Vibes

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Gun

  Arundhati Roy (1999). “The cost of living”, HarperCollins

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• If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Littles, Pistols, Silent

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1958). “Lolita”, Perigee Trade

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• I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Stupid, Gun, Echoes

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• Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Sorry, Hair

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• Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that spark of decency inside me. I'm trying to do something decent now, Captain.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hands, Trying, Sparks

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

  Janette Rallison

  Running, Heart, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Revelations: Number 3 in series”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Number one, [Hillary Clinton] is weak. Number two, she has a hair trigger and it's just the opposite with me.

  Donald Trump

  Hair, Opposites, Two

  Source: townhall.com

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• Donald Trump has this ability to trigger. He makes that kind of gut appeal.

  Allan Nairn

  Kind, Trump, Appeals

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Trump can, like every government, trigger a short boom with borrowed money, just like he has announced. He appears to want to adopt the economic policy approach favored by Republicans of putting lots of money into building roads and cutting taxes. Markets like that. But, at the end of the day, someone always has to foot the bill.

  Nicholas Bloom

  Cutting, Government, Feet

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Extraordinary Person

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• Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

  Adam West

  Inspirational, Memories, Good Memories

  "What I've Learned: Adam West" By Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Ronald Reagan said something really interesting about nuclear proliferation back in the 1980s. He said the problem with nuclear proliferation is some fool or maniac could trigger a catastrophic event and I think that Donald Trump is exactly who governor Reagan warned about.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Interesting, Events

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."

  Wayne Gretzky

  Memories, Kids, Years

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.

  Charlie Brooker

  Military, Book, Thinking

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• We have two thousand nuclear weapons on the trigger alert right now and Hillary Clinton wants to start an air war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power, over Syria as the means of addressing ISIS and the crisis in Syria.

  Jill Stein

  War, Mean, Isis

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

  Colin Farrell

  Perspective, Trying, Hollywood

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity.

  Seth

  Letting Go, Art, Creativity

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• Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

  Francis Bacon

  Ideas, Photograph

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Couple, Book, Important

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