Top 86 Quotes About Not Provoking
#1. 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
#2. The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing
#3. Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
Steve Pavlina
#4. 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
#5. It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
Haruki Murakami
#6. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#7. Man sees what he knows, not what he sees
Short story, The Mallard
S.L. Northey
#8. 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
#10. Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.
Trina Paulus
#11. Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
Charles Lamb
#13. 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
#14. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#15. There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
Noah Hawley
#16. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.
Robyn Schneider
#17. We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#18. It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
George R R Martin
#19. 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
#20. A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?
Derek Landy
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Bessie, you must promise not to scold me any more till I go." "Well, I will; but mind you are a very good girl, and don't be afraid of me. Don't start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it's so provoking.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
Juliette Binoche
#26. One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.
Rebecca McKinsey
#27. Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.'
Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7
C.S. Lewis
#28. We must not, then, aspire to please the multitude. For we do not practice what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory," says the apostle, "provoking one another, envying one another.
Clement Of Alexandria
#29. 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
#30. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.
Richard Llewellyn
#31. When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.
Epictetus
#32. The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.
David Packard
#33. 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
#34. There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
Billie Piper
#35. Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
Jason Reitman
#36. Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.
Eric Weiner
#38. It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
Epictetus
#39. In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive.
Gloria Steinem
#40. Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Charlotte Forten Grimke
#41. Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
Saint Augustine
#42. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way.
Shay Dawkins
#43. I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.
Ricky Gervais
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.
Zack Love
#47. 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
#48. Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#49. Yes, I still believe in God. That hasn't changed. I just needed some time away."
"Ah." Inspector Carrola clicked his tongue. "For your sake, I hope that God does not need some time away from you.
Richard Devin
#50. We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb.
Trina Paulus
#51. Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to look like. I'm not even sure if I have all the pieces.
Sharon M. Draper
#52. Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
Ben Hunt
#53. 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
#54. Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in against him. He might, however, neutralize Elizabth by supporting her internal Catholic enemies, even provoking civil war.
Peter Padfield
#55. Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
Stanley Schmidt
#56. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Vicki M. Taylor
#58. If you always do what you've done before, you will always get what you had, not more ...
Shelley K. Wall
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.
We learned our lesson with Don the Goat
T.R. Durphy
#64. Why do you do that?" he whispered, after a few minutes.
"Do what?"
"Provoke me."
"I don't ... I ... I'm not provoking you. I'm stating a fact."
"Nevertheless, it is extremely provocative. Every time I try to have a conversation with you like a normal person, you provoke me.
Sylvain Reynard
#65. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
Leo Tolstoy
#67. Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.
The Arbinger Institute
#68. You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#70. I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.
W. H. Auden
#71. Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#72. Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.
John Conyers
#73. If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?
Jill Archer
#74. I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Martin Kippenberger
#75. Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.
Steve Pavlina
#76. It's about time that we as Arabs take things into our own hands and figure out our own future, rather than [keep depending] on some outside force to do it for us ... particularly when intervention by this outside force has not particularly been beneficial to the region in recent history.
Marwan Al-Muasher
#77. Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.
April Bryan
#78. Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
Nina Guilbeau
#79. While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its problems. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.
Sam Harris
#81. The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against Fate.
Death lays his icy hand on kings ...
James Shirley
#82. Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us?
Mark W. Boyer
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Good try, chief, but you are sparring with a master in her craft, and didn't we just discuss not provoking the beast? Geeze, try tosave someone's life and they just throw it out the window.
Quinn Loftis
#86. If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.
Julia Cameron
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