Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money,… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some… — Michael Rennie Copy Share Image
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything… — Alistair Beaton Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I think humor really is the most effective way for me personally to express myself. When I see an incredible formalist painting,… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
With what Trump is doing now, provoking North Korea, risking actual destruction of part of the US, he is violating the system's… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance. — Dwight Rhoden Copy Share Image
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If you look at it a bit more deeply, ‘crying wolf’ is a cry for help that’s not about a wolf.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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