#catalyst

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ↗

— Jim Costa

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It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. ↗

— David Limbaugh

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When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#change #got #i #make #ones

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#every #love #love story #needs #some

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#imagination #just #their #them #though

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst. ↗

— Irfan Orga

#family

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate ↗

— Robin Hobb

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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. ↗

— William Weld

#catalyst #government #healthy #high #high office

catalyst, n. It surprised me — surprises me still — that you were the first one to say it. I was innocent, in a way, expecting those three words to appear boldface with music. But instead, it was such an ordinary moment: The movie was over, and I stood up to turn off the TV. A few minutes had passed from the end of the final credits, and we’d been sitting there on the couch, your legs over mine, the side of your hand touching the side of my hand. The video stopped and the screen turned blue. “I’ll get it,” I said, and was halfway to the television when you said, “I love you.” I never asked, but I’ll always wonder: What was it about that moment that made you realize it? Or, if you’d known it for awhile, what compelled you to say it then? It was welcome, so welcome, and in my rush to say that I loved you, too, I left the television on, I let that light bathe us for a little longer, as I returned to the couch, to you. We held there for awhile, not really sure what would happen next. ↗

— David Levithan

#i-love-you #love #love

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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