Provoking Quotes

443 Provoking quotes by 302 unique authors

In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… — Susanna Kaysen
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. — Sarah Vowell
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. — Seneca the Younger
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that… — Thomas More
What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that… — James Branch Cabell
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can… — Elie Wiesel
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk… — Al Pacino
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth… — Michael Meade
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things. — Michelle Monaghan
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking. — Kate Bush
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to… — Scott Reed
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on… — John Conyers
The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility — Charles Lamb
Before judging a person who is provoking stronger and stronger against its passive character towards the world today; first ask yourself if the world is… — Alexander Fennis
It's provoking when you give up and move on and then they come back begging. — Terry Mark
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none… — Robert Hughes
I mean you kinda like that girl that's in the US Open. I mean I got this hidden agenda that you provoking, I got bath… — J. Cole
Twitter's too heavy for me lately. I'm being read waaaay too much with the most random thought-provoking things. Too much. — Keri Hilson
Imagine smoking without police provoking — Vybz Kartel

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