Trigger Quotes

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. View quote
Don Marquis
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. View quote
Mehmet Oz
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. View quote
Kris Carr
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore. View quote
Evel Knievel
Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently. View quote
Maria Bartiromo
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. View quote
John Lennon
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. (Harold Macmillan)
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years. View quote
Alan Greenspan
I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. View quote
Uri Geller
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. View quote
Dmitriy Ustinov
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. View quote
Victor Hugo
I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them. View quote
Steven Johnson
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia. (Yehuda Berg)
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for. View quote
Catherine Crier
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. View quote
Gijs de Vries
It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. View quote
Graeme Murphy
The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position. View quote
Howard E. Wasdin