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And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.
Sep 10, 2025
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
[Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on.
Believe triggers the power to do.
Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger
If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.
I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.
I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
Today they're making pictures that I wouldn't want Trigger to see.
But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
When it gets to this point, it's just hard to pull the trigger.
You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased.
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.
My trigger got no heart.
Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.
On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?
The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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.
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.
I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.
What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.
Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensity going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.
This was in San Francisco, in 1987. A bunch of kids were camped out in the Riviera Hotel - boy hustlers and their sugar daddy. One boy, Tank, showed us his gun. 'It's not loaded,' he said. He pointed the gun to his head, then out the window, and then to the ceiling. When the gun was pointed to the ceiling, he pulled the trigger and it went off. The gun was loaded after all.
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.
You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.
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.
Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.
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.
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.
When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, “hurt feelings” is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.
A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage.
KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please." With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.
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.