Provoking Quotes

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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

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.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

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.

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

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.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

No man provokes me with impunity.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

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.

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.