Though Provoking Quotes

#1. I used to be a hairdresser.

Dee Dee Ramone

#2. We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Saint Augustine

#3. Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

Julie Otsuka

#4. Clubs spoke so bluntly ... so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. I get the feeling you aren't going to believe me, no matter what I say.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

Natalie Massenet

#7. The magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

Dolly Parton

#8. You're supposed to not be real!" she whispered in a long exhaled desperate sigh.
"Well, by human standards, neither are you. You should know better to believe in stories. What? Mama not teach you right?

Alyse M. Gardner

#9. Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Meat Loaf

#10. Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Vash Young

#11. At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We're sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.

Ken Wheaton

#12. I'm a young dude, and there ain't too many people who are doin' it like I'm doin' it. There ain't no others in my lane - I am the future of this music.

Ace Hood

#13. 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

#14. Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

Karl Barth

#15. 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

#16. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Todd William

#17. You can't impose a legacy.

Iain Sinclair

#18. Dear Great Pumpkin, Halloween is now only a few days away. Children all over the world await you coming. When you rise out of the pumpkin patch that night, please remember I am your most loyal follower. Have a nice trip. Don't forget to take out flight insurance.

Charles M. Schulz