Pushing People Buttons Quotes & Sayings

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized. — Benjamin Todd Jealous

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. — Keith Richards

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons. — Travis Bradberry

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around. — LeCrae

I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down. — Josh Smith

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back ... I went to his funeral in Belfast. — Frank McCourt

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity. — Mahatma Gandhi

On the elevator there was a man whose job it is just to work the elevator. He rides in it up and down all day, so the rich people don't have to tire themselves out, pushing all the buttons. I bet he gets carsick. I looked around, but I didn't see any throw-up. They probably take the bucket away when no one is looking. — Meg Cabot

Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything. — Marilyn Manson

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons. — Madonna Ciccone

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. — Nathaniel Branden

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise. — Thomas Pynchon

Interesting. You were able to determine 'my type' in the all of five minutes we've been talking?"
Now he was pushing her buttons a bit. "Yes."
"That's impressive. See, it's my job to size people up. So I'm intrigued to hear if you're as good as
you obviously think you are."
Sidney threw him a look. "Honey, you know exactly what your type is. And so does every single
woman in her thirties."
"I see." He leaned back in his chair and beckoned with this hand. "Now I really need to hear this. — Julie James