Top 77 Automatic Quotes

It doesn’t matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

The U.S. has fewer, stingier, more complicated, and more conditional safety nets available to people than many other advanced economies – less generous ‘automatic stabilizers,’ in economic parlance.

We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But it’s clear that there is simply no science that supports claims that rising sea levels threaten civilization much less the apocalypse.

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything… a lot of my doors are automatic; the whole house is voice-activated.

I like shocking, but I don’t like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it’s not my main drive.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.

Uncritical American boosterism – automatic endorsement of every government action – is myopic and self-defeating.

There’s nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Since 2012, automatic enrolment has brought millions of people into a workplace pension for the first time, thanks to the support of businesses and employees across the UK.

Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.

I had never driven in England on the left side of the road. I had never driven an automatic car.

I don’t think there’s any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they’re in the military or in the police.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

I actually don’t pay a lot of attention to the movie ‘industry’… I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a ‘breakthrough’ is almost an automatic for sure ‘let down’ or heartbreak.

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there’s a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.

You label somebody ‘New Age,’ and that’s automatic mockery: ‘She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.’

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a ‘real’ woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

I’m a black man in the United States, and there’s no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there’s an automatic understanding.

When I turn 55, I’m going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don’t want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I’ll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

The truth is, I’ve been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I’m on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

‘Flying In A Blue Dream’ was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up my acoustic guitar, tuned it strangely, and instantly wrote the tune. It’s funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. Usually, when things come easy, it means it’s good.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, ‘Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.’ I knew I’d have an automatic chance to win a championship.

When a movie becomes very successful, it’s automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated – sometimes repelled – by scientific friends’ automatic use of the word ‘mechanism’ for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

I’m of a generation that doesn’t expect automatic happiness, so I feel incredibly lucky.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you’re aware of that, you can take steps to change.

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

Forget about being world famous, it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in ‘Star Trek,’ stuff like that. It all happened, didn’t it, finally?

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don’t need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn’t understand.

When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Growth does not bring any ‘automatic’ improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

I’m normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they’re used to getting an automatic three hours alone.

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought – the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work – our brains just can’t think that fast. At a certain point, you’re going on automatic.

‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Used Cars’ were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it’s not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

Free from the shackles of the E.U. – and an automatic right of entry for their citizens, with or without work – we will be able to give the type of preference to brilliant scientists, academics and highly-skilled workers that we want to see more of.

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food – it’s automatic.

I just don’t understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it’s a no-brainer. I’m just kind of disappointed and shocked it’s not an automatic.

I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.