There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled. — Samuel Johnson 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
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 that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects. — Kehinde Wiley 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been… — Robert Hugh Benson 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa 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
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
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
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 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
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
The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
