Provoking Quotes

443 Provoking quotes by 302 unique authors

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that… — Marquis de Sade
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit… — Michel Foucault
I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Since when does a dog care about what it humps? (Dev) I could go so low with that that even the gutter would envy us,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters… — Loretta Chase
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes. — David Mitchell
Adieu, Lord Dain,â€ she answered without turning her head. â€œHave a pleasant evening with your cows.â€ Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain… — Loretta Chase
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies… — Richard Dawkins
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking? — Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
However , itâ€™s over, and Iâ€™ll take no revenge on his folly â€“ I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive… — Emily Bronte
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering… — Jonathan Stroud
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill… — Kim Harrison
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 imposed solitude is… — Jhonen Vasquez
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. — Naomi Wolf
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. — David Foster Wallace
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - — Louisa May Alcott
â€ŽThe greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes. — Octave Mirbeau

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