I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.” — David Silverman Copy Share Image
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Trump's election is generally bad news… In international policy, one can imagine that if Trump were foolish enough to go ahead with… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were… — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“I provoke thought, because that is what needs provoking. Humanity seems to hate thinking more than any other activity, and yet that… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with… — John Vane Copy Share Image
“It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is… — Viera Scheibner Copy Share Image
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot… — Patrick Chappatte Copy Share Image
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
