Provoking Quotes · Page 7

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

— Max McKeown

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

— Chinua Achebe

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

— A. C. Dixon

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

— William Mapother

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

— Paulo Coelho

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

— Charlie Kaufman

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

— Jonathan Sumption

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work…

— Judy Dater

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going…

— Francis Chan

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back…

— Bruce Springsteen

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

— C. S. Lewis

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

— Jeremy Renner

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen…

— Ginni Rometty

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with…

— John Gerard

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch…

— Henry Mintzberg

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism:…

— Oliver D. Crisp

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie…

— Kristen Stewart

Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in…

— Peter Padfield

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at…

— Peter Orner

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

When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about…

— Sacha Gervasi

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The…

— Randall Robinson

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.…

— Samuel Johnson

Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents…

— Joan Miro

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you…

— Joshua Ferris

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith,

— Pope Francis

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

— Edward Hirsch

Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

— Francis Chan

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

— Robert Fritz