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Provocative Quotes by Llewelyn Powys
- No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
- No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.
More Provocative Quotes
- Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
- When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble… — Rob Bell
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently. — Kathryn Bigelow
- The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. — Aesop
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a… — David Bowie
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? — Woody Allen
- I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed… — Dorothy Allison
- There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the… — Theodor Adorno
- Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas