Provoked Quotes

Provoked Quote of the day

If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

Being from a classical environment, I've always been provoked by classical musicians thinking that classical music is so much greater art than pop. I've always been annoyed by that.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.

It was sometimes provoked by assignments, then I'd go back on my own dime if I really clicked with a place. And sometimes it was just hanging out with my family or friends.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.