Provocative Quotes · Page 3

“If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.”

— Donald Rumsfeld

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

— Matt Haig

We're not trying to push the real provocative edge.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

— John McTiernan

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.

— Jonah Lehrer

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

I'm never worried about a joke being 'too provocative.' There's no such thing.

— Matt Rife

“But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb…

— Audre Lorde

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

— Ivars Peterson

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean…

— S.E. Cupp

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

— Vladimir Putin

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

— Diane Sawyer

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be…

— Rudy Giuliani

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative…

— John D. Caputo

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

— Akon

Before judging a person who is provoking stronger and stronger against its passive character towards the world today; first ask yourself if…

— Alexander Fennis

Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path…

— Maude Barlow

“Charbonneau was an interesting, amusing and provocative man and I like to think he brought out the best in me, also. Even…

— William Boyd

If you want to become an Islamic radical and have yourself circumcised, I invite you to come to Moscow... I would recommend…

— Vladimir Putin

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances…

— Marc Jacobs

Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking…

— Karl Schroeder

I dress for myself. Clearly, its provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable…

— Taylor Momsen

Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask…

— David Bezmozgis

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me…

— Richard Kern

“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group…

— Simone Collins

Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to…

— Slavoj Žižek

A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…

— William O. Douglas

A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it…

— Anonymous

The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom…

— Vladimir Voinovich

I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the…

— Lawrence Wright

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act…

— Caridad Svich

The very nature of 'UnREAL' is that we are provocative, uncensored, and brutally tactless.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

— Sam Harris

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

— Madonna Ciccone

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

— Vladimir Putin

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

— Vladimir Putin

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.

— Seungri

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

— Mark Twain