Button Quotes

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. View quote
Sam Levenson
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. View quote
William L. Shirer
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. View quote
Christopher Lasch
It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude” protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint. View quote
Emo Philips
It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
You see the button with the picture of the guy with the plate, and you push it, AND HE ARRIVES WITH A SANDWICH! ...And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land. It's my Wizard-Of-Oz phone." (Dylan Moran)
That is the nature of free will. We have the full ability to make a selection; we can press any button we please. However, when we press a button we have to take responsibility for what happens. The reaction is predestined, but is activated by our choice. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Do you remember stormy winter? Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon. View quote
Ryan Adams
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. View quote
Adolf Loos
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button. View quote
Brené Brown
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. View quote
Michael Parenti
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion. View quote
Arthur Miller
It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration. View quote
Michael Losier
I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that. View quote
Neal Shusterman
People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know. View quote
Rick Riordan
The phone rang in the comm. center. Ian consulted the monitor. "It's Dan." He pressed a button. "Kabra here." Dan's voice crackled through the attic. "Don't say it like that," he complained. "Your name still gives me heartburn. (Gordon Korman)
Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always. View quote
Deb Caletti
Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself. View quote
James Patterson
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. View quote
Gisele Bundchen
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly. View quote
Charlie Dent