Provoking Quotes

I keep six honest serving men.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

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.

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.

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

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

As long as there's life, there's hope.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

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.

If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

Originality provokes originality.

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.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

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.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

...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.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

One sin another doth provoke.