Provoking People Quotes

#1. I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

Martin Kippenberger

#2. It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Chris Lilley

#3. Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Carolee Dean

#4. 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

#5. Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

DeiAmor Verus

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We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

Sara Eckel

#7. Let us be frank: provoking military-political instability and other regional conflicts is also a convenient way of deflecting people's attention from mounting social and economic problems. Regrettably, further attempts of this kind cannot be ruled out.

Vladimir Putin

#8. I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee

#9. Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people.

Suzanne Collins

#10. Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

Jessica Park

#11. I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'

Chris Bauer

#12. Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.

J. Raymond

#14. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#16. People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#17. But we live in a karaoke society... Many people feel they have to dance to someone else's tune, to sing someone else's song.

Francis Dewar

#18. When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#19. If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Natsuo Kirino

#20. [Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

Edward Gibbon

#21. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Zack Love

#22. Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

J.C. Carleson

#23. Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

Marilyn Manson

#24. "Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

Steve Pavlina

#25. Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

Steve Pavlina

#26. People sometimes forget how to be happy due to a failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal footing. That was the only moral a story must have.

Ian McEwan

#27. What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#28. I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

Judy Dater

#29. It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Elizabeth Chandler

#30. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Mark Kingwell

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

#32. All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#33. Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

Flannery O'Connor

#34. Justice is a social construct. It's well known that the physical universe isn't fair. Nevertheless, it's difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.

Susan Cartwright

#35. 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

#36. His heart ... responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.

Lauren Groff

#37. And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life
not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. People were funny about things they couldn't see. If they couldn't see it, it wasn't there. Or at the least, it didn't affect them. But the world didn't work that way, did it? There were things all around that you couldn't see, and these things had power.

Martha Brockenbrough

#39. Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

Francis Chan

#40. In their thought-provoking book Focus, researchers Tory Higgins and Heidi Grant Halvorson argue that people lean toward being "promotion-focused" or "prevention-focused" in their aims.

Gretchen Rubin

#41. Yet people are still showing up to lift their hands after all these years even though the church is flawed and broken and beautiful and has a shameful, ugly side to it that I'll bet it wishes it didn't have and repeatedly tries to hide.
Just like me.
Just like you.
Just like always.

Max Andrew Dubinsky

#42. People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence.

Paul Simon

#43. As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

Lily Cole

#44. 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

#45. People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Rachel Joyce

#46. The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

Jack McDevitt

#47. If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

Jodi Picoult

#48. On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Tom Robbins

#49. People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.

Benjamin Percy