Triggering Quotes

#1. Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism.

Suzanne Somers

#2. The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.

Israel Shamir

#3. All the energy in the universe is evenly present in all places at the same time. We don't get energy, we release energy. And the triggering mechanism to release energy is desire. When you have a strong desire to do something, you will always have the energy to do it.

Bob Proctor

#4. Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to be easily predictable.

Tana French

#5. The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.

Michael Gove

#6. Katherine Sarafian, a producer who's been at Pixar since Toy Story, tells me she prefers to envision triggering the process over trusting it - observing it to see where it's faltering, then slapping it around a bit to make sure it's awake.

Ed Catmull

#7. Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#8. I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

Tim Crouch

#9. When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

Alanis Morissette

#10. As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Stephen Hawking

#11. Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Jamais Cascio

#12. Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.

Demi Lovato

#13. Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

Zac Goldsmith

#14. Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

William Gibson

#15. Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

Jenny Lawson

#16. We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that's when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It's in the report. It's called the 'Compton Effect.

William R. Forstchen

#17. Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.

Mira Jacob

#18. Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.

David Whyte

#19. It's time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they'll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them. There are a lot of jerks out there, and no matter what your politics are, a lot of people will have the opposite view.

Jerry A. Coyne

#20. I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

Pat Metheny

#21. The scented cloud permeates the air and coats our tongues, triggering images: licorice tobacco and a seductive fae with an agenda, ocean salt and a mortal boy's sweat, maple syrup and a father's love, a mother's sacrifice and a lunar garden rich with lilies and honeysuckle.

A.G. Howard

#22. the "hummingbird effect." An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.

Steven Johnson

#23. President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.

Peter Baker

#24. All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict with others, triggering their arrogance and lust for domination.This always involves contempt for Others.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#25. The Japanese experience, when a conscious effort by the central bank to prick an asset bubble ended up triggering an 80 per cent stock market sell-off and a decade of economic stagnation.

Niall Ferguson

#26. Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. This is a pattern of change that appears constantly in evolutionary history.

Steven Johnson

#27. Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#28. Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Dieter Zetsche

#29. Nice to feel you.

Bella Jeanisse

#30. I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.

Kiki Dee

#31. But what if things aren't what they seem? As you said, there is no truth in the Digital Sea." "Eventually we must cling to some reality," Mekena said. "Even if we are not sure it is the most real. One can wait for a whole lifetime for the reality we want and miss the one we have in our hands.

Thomas K. Carpenter

#32. Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'

Clarence Jordan

#33. Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Bill Gates

#34. Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

Elizabeth Dole

#35. The question is not, "Am I perfect in myself before the law?" but, "Am I perfect in Christ Jesus?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#36. It's baffling how some people whose ancestors carved up the world with knives are now worried about defending their piece from the 'outsiders.

Jonathan R. Miller

#37. [T]his need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#38. [T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

Glenn Reynolds

#39. Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Erin Merryn

#40. I'm the sort of loser who succeeds really well and then drops a turd in the punch bowl.

Christopher Titus

#41. But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Neesha Meminger

#42. A study of 73 women and 82 men found that people could not actively absorb more than 500 mg a day of calcium, and this was plenty for people who ate little salt and protein. Those fed more protein and salt used about 700 mg of calcium per day.

Janice Stanger

#43. Martin nodded, his head snapping up and down. He was wearing baggy gray sweatpants and no shirt. His torso was soft and undeveloped and covered with a thick growth of fine hair. He squinted against the bright morning sun. Yeah, sure. What do you want?

Robert Crais

#44. Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

Marie Chapian