Definition of Trigger

Trigger

A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece.

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Trigger Quotations

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

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
Daniel Goleman

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

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

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

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.
Uri Geller

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

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis

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

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.
Graeme Murphy

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Roy H. Williams

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
Joseph Rotblat

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
Warren Cuccurullo

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.
Maria Bartiromo

Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
Gijs de Vries

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
Gijs de Vries

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
Peter Hain

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

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.
Catherine Crier

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger.
Gray Davis

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.
Jim Allchin

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
Mario Monti

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

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

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
Harold Budd

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

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

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.
Joan Bennett

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Trigger Translations

trigger in Dutch is haan van een vuurwapen
trigger in Portuguese is disparador
trigger in Spanish is gatillo, deduccion, disparador

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