Instigation Quotes

#1. It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

James Russell Lowell

#2. If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.

Osama Bin Laden

#3. As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome

Suetonius

#4. Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Beau Bridges

#5. Clifford, except for Phoebe's more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair, till eventide.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

#7. Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#8. Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.

Osama Bin Laden

#9. No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

Roger Williams

#10. It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey

Harold Holzer

#11. Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Henry Hazlitt

#12. A soft death can be swallowed with Called home to be with the Lord or We'll see her again in glory, but hard deaths get caught in the teeth like gristle. We

Brit Bennett

#13. We will live an up-and-down Christian life if our faith is based on circumstances and not our faithful God. Stand firm in God's promises!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#14. Instead of getting mad or getting even, get creative.

Pat Williams

#15. All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

Pedro Almodovar

#16. At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

Alex Honnold

#17. Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.

T.F. Hodge

#18. Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#19. Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

John Polkinghorne

#20. Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.

Marty Rubin

#21. Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.

Mike Rowe

#22. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

Ron Suskind

#23. The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot