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Provoking Quotes

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

We will not accept defeat - only triumph and fresh understanding.
Authors on Provoking Quotes: Francis Chan Pope Francis Jacqueline Novogratz William Shakespeare Benjamin Franklin Mark Kingwell Saint Augustine E. O. Wilson Ovid Charlotte Forten Grimke Ludwig von Mises Robert Bresson David D. Glass Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Salvador Dali Paulo Coelho Amos Bronson Alcott Steve Coogan David Mitchell Joshua Harris Rakim Andrew Pyper Ogden Nash Doris Lessing John Calvin Rebecca Horn Dan Byrd James Ellroy Madonna Ciccone Deion Sanders Mary, Queen of Scots Thomas Wilson Edward Gibbon
2.
I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.
Deion Sanders

I anticipate excellence. I anticipate pioneering new paths. I anticipate inciting transformation.
3.
No one provokes me with impunity.
Mary, Queen of Scots

4.
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown

5.
To be interesting,
one has to provoke.
Salvador Dali

6.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy

7.
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Charlotte Forten Grimke

8.
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
Madonna Ciccone

9.
A disciple is a disciple maker.
Francis Chan

10.
The time for change is now.
Jacqueline Novogratz

11.
Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.
David D. Glass

12.
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
Ludwig von Mises

13.
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Seneca the Younger

14.
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.
Paulo Coelho

15.
Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.
Thomas Wilson

16.
You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
Pope Francis

17.
Every sin provokes its punishment.
Amos Bronson Alcott

18.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing

19.
I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
Francis Chan

20.
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.
Rebecca Horn

21.
Originality provokes originality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

22.
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul

23.
If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
Joshua Harris

24.
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.
Rakim

25.
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi

26.
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
Saint Augustine

27.
Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.
Robert Bresson

28.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
George Santayana

29.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell

30.
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
Benjamin Franklin

31.
One sin another doth provoke.
William Shakespeare

32.
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.
Francis Chan

33.
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

34.
Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.
Benjamin Franklin

35.
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.
Pope Francis

36.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.
Jacqueline Novogratz

37.
No man provokes me with impunity.
Ovid

38.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
David Mitchell

39.
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
John Calvin

40.
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.
Dan Byrd

41.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Andrew Pyper

42.
I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.
Steve Coogan

43.
[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.
Edward Gibbon

44.
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson

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

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