Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way. — Sergei Lavrov 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 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
If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.” — David Silverman 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
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and… — Jeremy Brett 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C. S. Lewis 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
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
