Buttons quotes
275 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
"I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
"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."
"Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up."
"If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help."
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"Belly buttons are cool!"
"Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."
"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be."
"I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine."
"It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be."
"The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one."
"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."
"Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you."
"Hit the delete button every time fear appears."
"When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know."
"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
"When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve."
"Never touch another man's button."
"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."
"It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button."
"My wonder button is being pushed all the time."
"Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you."
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
"Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication."
"That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week."
