A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
My position has always been to avoid violence to avoid provocation. — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It is better to know it. Better to know who you are, and what lies in you, what you could do, might… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Let’s just say, there’s not much of a moon out tonight,” Nose continued anyway, “but if Yale joined us, there would be.” — Ripley Patton 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
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
I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“Passion, and passion in its profoundest, is not a thing demanding a palatial stage whereon to play its part. Down among the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All these iterations have been political interventions: as provocation, as direct action to discomfort, as challenge to what I consider nonliberatory praxis.… — Cindy Milstein Copy Share Image
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying… — Rajneesh 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
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
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
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
I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. — Octavia Spencer 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
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
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 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
