“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
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
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
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
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 opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest.… — Karen Barad Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense… — Garry Trudeau 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
“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
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering… — Andre Breton 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
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
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![“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/i/a78/michael-haneke-3712_actors_you-cannot-hurt-animals-so-what-do-i-do_1479959.jpg)
