Provoking Quotes · Page 19

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come…

— Sebastiao Salgado

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if…

— Celia Thaxter

Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for…

— Margaret Mead

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

— Billy Mills

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

— Jacques Ellul

It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.

— Jaime King

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

— George Santayana

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of…

— Samuel Johnson

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more…

— Anonymous

We learn not in the school, but in life.

— Anonymous

When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may…

— Sergio Chejfec

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes…

— Edward R. Murrow

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by…

— Sherrie Levine

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes…

— Martin Luther

There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was…

— Zachary Quinto

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels…

— C. S. Lewis

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because…

— Ricky Gervais

One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

— Pope Francis

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige…

— Verner Panton

It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king…

— Amos Oz

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act…

— Scott Reed