Provoking Quotes

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

What a man does not know is greater than he.

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.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

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

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

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

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

What we have is a data glut.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

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.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

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

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

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

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

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

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

The world is one big data problem.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

I keep six honest serving men.

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.