I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation. — Freeman Tilden Copy Share Image
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. — Samuel Richardson 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
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
I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. — Octavia Spencer 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
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
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
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
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons… — L. Ron Hubbard 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
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a… — Jacques Chirac 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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham 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
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am… — Robert Higgs 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
“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation. — David Dellinger 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
