I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
What is the only provocation that could bring about the use of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons. What is the priority target for… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Everywhere the Salafi are pushing by saying, "We are the guardian, and we are resisting any kind of relationship to the West… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Try to reframe the provocation: Maybe he’s having a rough day. There’s no need to take it personally. Don’t act like a… — Martin E. Seligman Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“it makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it… — Seneca Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the… — Aesop Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be… — St. Mark the Ascetic Copy Share Image
With a military American base in our territory, where there could be any sort of weapons, where we have to endure every… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison… — Filipp Golikov Copy Share Image
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” quote by Michael Haneke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a78/michael-haneke-3712_actors_you-cannot-hurt-animals-so-what-do-i-do_1479959.jpg)
