1.
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
We will not accept defeat - only triumph and fresh understanding.
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.
4.
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
6.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy
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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Charlotte Forten Grimke
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My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
Madonna Ciccone
11.
Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.
David D. Glass
12.
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Seneca the Younger
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It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
Ludwig von Mises
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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
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You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.
Pope Francis
18.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing
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I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.
Francis Chan
22.
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
23.
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
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Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
Saint Augustine
28.
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
George Santayana
30.
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.
Pope Francis
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No man provokes me with impunity.
Ovid
32.
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
33.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
David Mitchell
34.
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
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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Andrew Pyper
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I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.
Steve Coogan
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[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.
Edward Gibbon
38.
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson
39.
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
William Shakespeare
40.
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Ogden Nash
42.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell
44.
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
45.
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