Top 426 Trigger Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What's more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Blockchain startups are suffering from a crippling, archaic, and antiquated state regulatory system - and it's driving innovation abroad. Many blockchain start-ups trigger or may trigger money transmitter laws and regulations.

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and you swallow it, but once it's inside you it's too late, and it triggers, blowing up. And it's your specific inner beliefs and faulty arguments that trigger a satire bomb. If your arguments work, the bomb doesn't trigger, it doesn't need to.

Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

My trigger got no heart.

Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.

Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they don’t find it, they go to search. That’s the way it works on 99% of sites, although Amazon is an exception. That’s because Amazon has done a great job of training users to know that absolutely nothing on the home page is of any use.

I wanna be incidental characters in 'Only Fools and Horses,' that would have been good. I wouldn't mind playing Trigger, Trigger would have been good.

Think about the physical act of pulling a trigger. The amount of pressure it takes to pull a trigger or the speed it takes to shove a sharp object into somebody. The psychology behind it. Why people kill? Why people don't kill?

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

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

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.

Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Every new experience will trigger melodies in my head.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.