Top 100 Quotes About Provoking
#1. 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
#2. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
Hannah More
#3. 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
#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. Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark Kingwell
#6. 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
#7. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Dan Poynter
#8. Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
#9. The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
Charles Lamb
#10. 'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
Jane Ridley
#11. The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#12. Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#13. Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.
Paul Scheuring
#14. 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
#15. And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid - the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city's alchemists whine like dogs - was provoking more and more interest from London's repo-men and -women.
China Mieville
#16. Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
Brad Bird
#17. I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Kim Harrison
#18. That's what you men are always doing; it's so barbarously naive. You feel one of your loose desires for some woman, and because you desire her strongly you immediately accuse her of luring you on, of deliberately provoking and inviting the desire.
Aldous Huxley
#19. Dave gazed at Melanie like Professor Brian Cox eyeing up a particularly thought-provoking mountain range.
Dave Turner
#20. I warned you that I'm having a difficult time being a gentleman. Should I assume you're provoking me on purpose?
Tessa Bailey
#21. 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
#22. Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. 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
#24. Charles' conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody's ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams.
Gustave Flaubert
#25. 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
#26. To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
Jeanne Moreau
#27. 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
#28. [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.
Philippe Halsman
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Would you like some sweet tea?" she asked. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Patti Whitt.
"Yes, ma'am, I'd appreciate it." And my father, the fear-provoking gentleman.
Wendy Higgins
#32. The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.
E.B. White
#33. In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.
Rob Brezsny
#34. 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
#35. 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
#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
#37. Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.
Richard Dawkins
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Arjun Rampal
#41. Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Charlotte Forten Grimke
#42. 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
#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. Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson
#45. 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
#46. This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.
Paulo Coelho
#47. Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,
Nomi Prins
#48. Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Ogden Nash
#49. An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.
Robert Hughes
#50. Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
Lizz Winstead
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#59. 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
#60. Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
Jamie Hyneman
#61. 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
#62. 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
#65. 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
#66. The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).
David Frum
#67. 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
#68. The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
Martin Freeman
#69. Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who
Paul Gitwaza
#70. Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
Baron De Montesquieu
#71. We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
Jonathan Sumption
#72. Great Question Are:
Quintessential
Unforgettable
Expressive
Stimulating
Thought Provoking
Impactful
Open Ended
Neutral
Significant
Farshad Asl
#73. 'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
Reid Scott
#74. 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
#75. Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
Scott Reed
#76. 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
#77. People who talk too much are tiresome, especially those who are not informative, thought-provoking, or funny.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#79. 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
#81. Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno
#82. I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Martin Kippenberger
#83. The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!
Alfre Woodard
#84. Intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
Stanley Schmidt
#85. 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
#86. I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
William Mapother
#87. In a sane world, a term like "chronic crisis" would be instantly seen by anone as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, that's the state that many of us Western Worlders live in, provoking crisis after crisis so that we can justify our dis-ease rather than addressing that directly.
Anthony D. Ravenscroft
#88. I think it's meant to be thought provoking, said Cinder. Iko frowned, looking unprovoked. They
Marissa Meyer
#89. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
#90. 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
#91. A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
Neil Gaiman
#92. And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself
Anthony Kiedis
#93. Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.
Richard M. Weaver
#94. Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.
David M. Brown
#95. I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
Charlie Kaufman
#96. I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.
Thomas Keller
#97. Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.
Jesse Kellerman
#98. 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
#99. I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins
#100. I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.
Petra Remes
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