Provocation Quotes
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
— John Tillotson
People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.
— Marcel Proust
With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.
— Sergei Lavrov
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
— Jeremy Collier
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A woman's voice is considered a sexual provocation (kol be-ishah ervah), so that a woman may not read or recite before men.
— Rachel Biale
Let's just say, there's not much of a moon out tonight," Nose continued anyway, "but if Yale joined us, there would be.
— Ripley Patton
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It was perhaps an incautious suggestion to make to a person only too ready to write books upon the feeblest provocation.
— G.K. Chesterton
Any sin that any sinner ever committed, every sinner under proper provocation could commit.
— Bob Jones, Sr.
When the attack is "due" (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.
— Oliver Sacks
a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
— Freeman Tilden
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
— Patrick Chappatte
He's done what he said he'd do." She could feel the gentle provocation in his words, and it was what she needed. "He's done what he says he said.
— James S.A. Corey
You could get pretty angry with less provocation. She
— Stieg Larsson
Writing is a provocation.
— Marty Rubin
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.
— Viera Scheibner
Write something the skeptics will sneer at.
— Marty Rubin
Do not give in to the provocation of the devil
— Sunday Adelaja
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
— Arthur Cravan
It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You
— Patrick O'Brian
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
— George R R Martin
What is indispensable to inspiration? ... sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
we only shout when we neglect what silence can do
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
— Octavia Spencer
I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Never do what the devil provokes you to do
— Sunday Adelaja
