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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

The rules of the game in Alabama politics is that no matter the provocation, no matter the justification, you take your whippings gracefully. — Bob Ingram

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

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation. — J.K. Rowling

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel

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 movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement. — Ang Lee

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C.S. Lewis

The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will. — Matthew Henry

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled. — Samuel Johnson

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.

Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation. — Marisha Pessl

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

I trust you not to kill, main, or drown me without just provocation. — Jena Leigh

I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things. — Mark Lawrence

Writing is a provocation. — Marty Rubin

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. — Alexander Pope

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

Patience ... speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation ... enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge. — Billy Graham

Do not give in to the provocation of the devil — Sunday Adelaja

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. — Arthur Cravan

... he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage. — Arundhati Roy

It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You — Patrick O'Brian

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation. — Aldous Huxley

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

Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution. — Toba Beta

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You don't need a provocateur,
if demon's been there within you. — Toba Beta

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. — H.L. Mencken