Quotes About Provoking Others

#1. God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

#2. Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Elizabeth Chandler

#4. If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. 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

#6. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Mark Kingwell

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

#10. Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Thomas Wilson

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. 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

#13. One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Elie Wiesel

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

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Dan Poynter

#16. It is uncertain where Death will await you;
there expect it everywhere.

Seneca.

#17. Man sees what he knows, not what he sees

Short story, The Mallard

S.L. Northey

#18. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Pope Francis

#19. 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

#20. My mentor used to say that no one can make us feel badly about ourselves unless we allow it. He lectured me endlessly that the biggest offenders to shrink our self-worth weren't others, but ourselves.

Veronica Blade

#21. The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Francis Bacon

#22. 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

#23. I was well aware of her ghosts. I'd met them, once or twice, during her darkness nights. "I knew you were my one when you wouldn't run," she said. How could I? Of course I stayed, when her ghosts scared my own away. What others were too afraid to see, meant everything to me.

J. Raymond

#24. You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

Sonya Hartnett

#25. Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would the rest of the Others do if one of their kind did fall in love with a human?

Anne Bishop

#26. Communication is a major key to building any strong relationship, whether it is the relationship one has with oneself or with others. Sinful communication weakens yourself, weakens those you care about, and thus weakens your team.

Shay Dawkins

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

Michael J. Collins

#30. You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith,

Pope Francis

#31. I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

Steve Pavlina

#32. "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

#33. The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#34. It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca The Younger

#35. One sin another doth provoke.

William Shakespeare

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

#37. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Pythagoras

#38. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.

Mackenzi Lee

#39. Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.

C. Nzingha Smith

#40. I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade....

Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil

Amna Iqbal

#41. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Fiona Paul

#42. Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval.

Patricia C. Wrede

#43. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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

Steven Cuoco

#45. 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

#46. The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Doris Lessing

#47. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Abhijit Naskar

#48. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Hannah More

#49. Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

Michele McKnight Baker

#50. Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor to ceiling, Lady Butler contemplated, How odd it is that a room filled with millions of words can be so silent.

Lance Taubold

#51. 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

#52. If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

Epictetus

#53. We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Larry Page

#54. Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

Steve Pavlina

#55. 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

#56. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Francis Chan

#57. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Bradley Bowman

#58. 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

#59. If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Criss Jami

#60. If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

Anand Neelakantan

#61. 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

#62. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

Shelley D Terrell

#63. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Queen Victoria

#64. Life is made for the living.

J.J.V. The Storyteller