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
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
My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The doctors advised me not to have even one. My health was still not good, and they said that pregnancy might be… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
At any Trump rally, the Trump supporters were peaceful. They were enthusiastic. They loved America. They were excited. They were pro Trump.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly;… — Paul the Apostle 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
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
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII 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
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. — Katherine Anne Porter 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
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked:… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert 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
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
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.'… — Leslie Scalapino Copy Share Image
