Provoking Quotes

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

No one provokes me with impunity.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

To be interesting,
one has to provoke.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

The time for change is now.

Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.

Méret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur.

Originality provokes originality.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

Just watching an actor in front you really provokes you in such a sudden, unexpected way. You can't ask for anything more from someone you're working with than that.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

One sin another doth provoke.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

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.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

No man provokes me with impunity.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect