Provoking Quotations

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

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

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

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.

[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.

No doubt it (the car bomb), like the murder of Billy Wright in the Maze prison, is intended to destabilize the situation by provoking a reaction ... I hope people will not allow themselves, as they have been, to be provoked into reacting.

It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.

It is often the case that tastelessness is answered with tastelessness. But in this case it is more serious, because the Iranian government here is deliberately provoking a conflict.

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

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

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

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

Every sin provokes its punishment.

We're trying to raise some questions in an entertaining but thought provoking way without preaching.

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.

The government is purposefully delaying finding a solution to our issues. We want to resolve the issue through peaceful means, but the government is provoking us using all sort of methods.

We are celebrating 14 years since February 4 and saying to the imperialists that the people will never again kneel before their aggression. They are provoking Venezuela and we won't let that happen.

Video Games Live is a milestone in the evolution of games as an art form in world culture. Featuring VGL at GDC fits in perfectly with our goals of provoking innovation among game creators, and producing ideas that have dramatic reach into the greater entertainment audience.

Cutting public expenditures by any large degree cannot be done without affecting the poor who rely on public services, or provoking huge rebellions.

drunk and armed people Mr. Milosevic brought ... with the aim of provoking bloodshed.

The will of the American people cannot be subverted in case after case, on issue after issue, year after year, without provoking a strong counter-reaction.

Product placement is simply putting a branded box of cereal on the kitchen table in a show. Product integration is having the characters talk about the crunchy deliciousness of the cereal or provoking them to go out and tell their neighbors to buy that cereal.

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.

not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically elected governments.

If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet! Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying something significant. Expressing ideas if you can't make them understood. You're just babling to yourself!

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.

A disciple is a disciple maker.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

The time for change is now.

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

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

The Iraqi national resistance will stand against the plan of provoking civil war in Iraq, and we are ready to fight to prevent it.

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

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

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

Writers should provoke disagreement.

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

One sin another doth provoke.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

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

No man provokes me with impunity.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

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

Originality provokes originality.

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

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Most experiences provoke a transformation in you. So, when you live something, live it fully because you never know when this is going to happen again and not only that, if it even happens again, it will not have the same impact.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

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