Provoking Quotes · Page 9

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

“She had an inner fire that begged provoking, just for the pleasure of watching it burn. Right.”

— Karen Marie Moning

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

— Dan Poynter

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

— Steve Pavlina

This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in theworld, but…

— Fanny Burney

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in…

— James Branch Cabell

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues…

— George Packer

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

— Judy Dater

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

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans…

— Janet Mock

I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something…

— Jose Padilha

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

After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It…

— Lydia Davis

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

What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

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

— Samuel Johnson

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

— Francis Chan

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to…

— W. S. Gilbert

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

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money,…

— Francis Chan

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

— John Clapham

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we…

— Bruce Cockburn

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,

— Nomi Prins

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

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

— Wassily Kandinsky

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these…

— Sebastiao Salgado

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

— Henry Ford

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

— Mark Kingwell

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

— Francis Bacon