Provoking Quotes

443 Provoking quotes by 302 unique authors

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but… — Billie Piper
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army,… — Vladimir Putin
Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds… — Jason Reitman
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. — Anita Roddick
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some… — Henry David Thoreau
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why… — Walt Whitman
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. — E. O. Wilson
Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on… — Frans de Waal
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.… — Milan Kundera
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance — William Shakespeare
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves… — Terry Pratchett
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever… — William Wilberforce
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing… — Yann Martel
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions,… — Joyce Carol Oates
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they… — Pseudonymous Bosch

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