Provoking Quotes

• Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Why
  • Movie

• Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Charm
  • Harm
  • Provoking

• Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Failing
  • Satisfied
  • Asks

• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Fall
  • Study
  • Traps

• Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Ability
  • Blessing
  • Generosity

• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  

  Hans Kung
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Lasts

• I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

  

  William Mapother
  • Stories
  • Thrive
  • Explosions

• What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Debate
  • Discussion
  • Provoking

• People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Future
  • Political
  • Unbearable

• One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Murder
  • Lust

• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Sleep

• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Study

• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Suspicion
  • Deceit
  • Justify

• Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

  

  David M. Brown
  • Education
  • Achieve
  • Debate

• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Fear
  • Hard
  • Talking

• One sin another doth provoke.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Provoking

• The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.

  

  Geoffrey Barraclough
  • Differences
  • Judgment
  • Historian

• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Years
  • Inevitable
  • Provoking

• When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Kissing
  • Bookworms

• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Sleep
  • Drinking

• I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Light
  • Appreciate
  • Discussion

• As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Quality
  • Complacency
  • Anthropology

• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Grateful
  • Admire
  • Hopefully

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