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I like to provoke. I'm very French.
— Carine Roitfeld
Inviting argument is easy. The goal is write something bold enough to invite contrary feedback and provoke real discussion.
— Jen Knox
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
— William Beveridge
There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
— Mary J. Blige
Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit
— Bill Bryson
One sin another doth provoke.
— William Shakespeare
Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. — Toba Beta
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. — Toba Beta
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
— George Henry Lewes
How could someone so heavenly provoke such sinful thoughts.
- Jude — Karina Martinez Veliz
- Jude — Karina Martinez Veliz
A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.
— Paulo Coelho
As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.
— Tommy Wiseau
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
— Ambrose Bierce
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If everything has happen in one day and there isn't sun rise and sun arise,... so logicaly everything happens in one day but in long distances!?
— Deyth Banger
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.
— Catherine Crier
I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.
— Randall Robinson
I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
— Naoto Kan
You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
— Pope Francis
Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.
— A. Zavarelli
That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
— Gregory Maguire
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Do not provoke me," I bite out. "I told you not to provoke me." "It's not my fault you can't control your temper," she snaps. Her
— A. Zavarelli
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate
— Christopher Fry
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
— Lars Von Trier
I knew it would annoy her. She'd deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity.
— Kevin Hearne
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
— Robert Bresson
When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don't get provoked, it is known as a spiritual victory.
— Dada Bhagwan
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.
— Milton Friedman
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 bitterness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Writers should provoke disagreement.
— V.S. Naipaul
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Have you no sense at all, that you would provoke me? I'm twice your size, you know, he murmured against her ear.
— Karen Marie Moning
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.
— Guy Laliberte
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
— Pierre Charron
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
— Jordan Peele
You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash.
— Katerina Martinez
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
— Robert Redford
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
— James Gleick
I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.
— Alyssa Sutherland
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
— James Ellroy
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
— Saint Augustine
Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
— Stefan Molyneux
They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them." As if that's how oppression works. But
— Fredrik Backman
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
— Edward Hirsch
Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and - necessarily - that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.
— Ariel Levy
I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.
— Deion Sanders
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.
— Stephen Graham Jones
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
— Madonna Ciccone
If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
— Joshua Harris
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.
— Verner Panton
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith,
— Pope Francis
I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
— Spike Lee
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
— Ernst Fischer
It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You
— Patrick O'Brian
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
— Sebastiao Salgado
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.
— Courteney Cox
One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.
— Pope Francis
In a hot greenish body of water
slowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee
slowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
— Scott Stossel
You do not have to provoke other people for them to provoke you, those who hate you will always get a way of blaming you.
— Auliq Ice