Most Provoking Quotes

#1. You want us all to be snake-charmers and scorpion-eaters," he raged, at one point in their conversation ...
"Naturally," Eunice replied in her most provoking manner. "It would be far preferable to being a nation of tenth-rate pseudo-civilized rug-sellers.

Paul Bowles

#2. Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead.

Alain De Botton

#4. Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

Harvey MacKay

#5. Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny.

Shay Dawkins

#6. For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words.

Henry Mintzberg

#8. Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?

Patrick McGrath

#9. Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!

B.A. Gabrielle

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

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#11. Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

Jim Wallis

#12. If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Susan May Warren

#13. Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#14. It's not the small of her back, her thighs, or her chest or eyes that matter most. It's the parts of her she's afraid to show that you should get to know.

J. Raymond

#15. This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

Henry Ford

#16. 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

#17. For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.

Jermaine Watkins

#18. My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#19. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

#20. Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

S.L. Northey

#21. I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

Michelle Monaghan

#22. We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#23. Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.

Steve Pavlina

#24. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Tom Robbins

#25. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

Jamaica Kincaid

#26. Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

Steven Cuoco