The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is… — Daniel Humair Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
As a designer, I'm supposed to be provoking people's reactions, and getting people to see things differently. I think more of us… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation -… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image