Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked. — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
“I hope this story provokes you as much as it provoked me to write it.” — Bill Myers Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's sad that the people we love the most are often the target of our hurtful words. But even when feel we've… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated,… — James Gilligan Copy Share Image
When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you… — Albert Martin Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sometimes I walk into a situation and I know somebody is going to provoke me - not maybe, I know he will… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
You raped her because her Clothes provoked you? I should break your face, cause your stupidity provokes me! — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
