Provoker Quotes

#1. The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

Karl Kraus

#2. I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Mark Lanegan

#3. In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.

Conn Iggulden

#5. I mean to go on in my sins to the end, let me tell you. For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. I've come to learn two truths about love. One: The fall is the easy part. Two: It's best not to fall.

Laura Miller

#7. Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#9. One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Sara Levine

#10. I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences ... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#11. People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Alain De Botton