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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 Amos Bronson Alcott David Mitchell Steve Coogan Joshua Harris Rakim Andrew Pyper Doris Lessing Ogden Nash Dan Byrd John Calvin Rebecca Horn James Ellroy Deion Sanders Madonna Ciccone Edward Gibbon Mary, Queen of Scots Thomas Wilson Queen Victoria George Santayana V. S. Naipaul Mahatma Gandhi Catherine Crier Max McKeown Seneca the Younger E. O. Wilson Mark Kingwell Saint Augustine Ovid
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.
A disciple is a disciple maker.
Francis Chan

9.
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
Madonna Ciccone

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

13.
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
Ludwig von Mises

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.
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul

21.
If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.
Joshua Harris

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

24.
Originality provokes originality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

30.
You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.
Pope Francis

31.
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

35.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Andrew Pyper

36.
I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.
Steve Coogan

37.
[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

41.
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
Benjamin Franklin

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

43.
One sin another doth provoke.
William Shakespeare

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

46.
Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.
Benjamin Franklin