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I like to provoke. I'm very French. — Carine Roitfeld

Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake. — Saru Singhal

Inviting argument is easy. The goal is write something bold enough to invite contrary feedback and provoke real discussion. — Jen Knox

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge

As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria. — Michelle Goldberg

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. — Mary J. Blige

Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit — Bill Bryson

One sin another doth provoke. — William Shakespeare

Blurring reality and fiction: Fiction written to provoke and to entertain — Ronald S. Barak

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses. — James Morcan

Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. — Toba Beta

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. — George Henry Lewes

How could someone so heavenly provoke such sinful thoughts.

- Jude — Karina Martinez Veliz

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up. — Paulo Coelho

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me. — Tommy Wiseau

If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him. — Winston Graham

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything. — Tim Crouch

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. — Sebastiao Salgado

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt. — A.C. Dixon

If everything has happen in one day and there isn't sun rise and sun arise,... so logicaly everything happens in one day but in long distances!? — Deyth Banger

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box. — Mary Sage Nguyen

My grandpa once told me never to provoke an injured bear, especially one nursing its wounds, but sometimes the bear needs to be poked. — Katie McGarry

But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character. — Junot Diaz

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. — Catherine Crier

Some clothes provoke more feelings in me than people. — Carolina Soto

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. — Randall Robinson

If you find yourself easily provoked,
then just change the channel. — Toba Beta

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. — Thom Mayne

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change. — Robert Barron

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way. — Jordan Peele

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron

Art does not exist only to entertain
but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth. — Barbra Streisand

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different. — Guy Laliberte

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Writers should provoke disagreement. — V.S. Naipaul

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. — Henry David Thoreau

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. — Seneca The Younger

Have you no sense at all, that you would provoke me? I'm twice your size, you know, he murmured against her ear. — Karen Marie Moning

When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don't get provoked, it is known as a spiritual victory. — Dada Bhagwan

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. — Criss Jami

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke. — William Wordsworth

oh, don't look so aggrieved. I have never met a man I didn't provoke" ~ Asha Greyjoy (from a Feast For Crows) — George R R Martin

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect. — Nicole Mones

They all had darkened eyes, eyes that seemed to have a hunger behind them. Borne out of the private convulsions only secret passions can provoke. — Guy Mankowski

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind ... — Edward Gibbon

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply. — Samuel Johnson

To be interesting, one has to provoke. — Salvador Dali

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs. — Peter Benchley

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

I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake. — James Arthur

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

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

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. — Ernst Fischer

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion. — Spike Lee

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

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. — Edward Hirsch

Yes," Bernarde quipped, "Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us battle 'till the sun turns us to ash. — Katerina Martinez

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us. — Robert Redford

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories. — Alyssa Sutherland

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. — James Ellroy

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. — Casey Affleck

Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock. — Stefan Molyneux

They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them." As if that's how oppression works. But — Fredrik Backman

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes. — Ludwig Von Mises

Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and - necessarily - that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work. — Ariel Levy

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

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. — Stephen Graham Jones

Provoke your inner energy,Challenge yourself and you will achieve amazing things — Mohammed Sekouty

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

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you. — Joshua Harris

Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level! — Deyth Banger

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state. — Milton Friedman

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate — Christopher Fry

Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? — Gregory Maguire

Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another. — A. Zavarelli

Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition. — Marty Rubin

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power. — Lars Von Trier

I knew it would annoy her. She'd deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity. — Kevin Hearne

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. — Robert Bresson

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance. — Dwight Rhoden

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it. — Ulrike Meinhof

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

You do not have to provoke other people for them to provoke you, those who hate you will always get a way of blaming you. — Auliq Ice

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country. — Naoto Kan

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. — Scott Stossel

In a hot greenish body of water
slowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp") — Paul Dermee

One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith. — Pope Francis

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes. — Courteney Cox

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight. — J. Michael Straczynski

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions. — Sebastiao Salgado