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Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men.
— Madeline Hunter
Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.
— Jo Brand
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
— Catharine Beecher
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
— Louisa May Alcott
I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
— Crystal Reed
He has no theistic beliefs, but shares the poetic naturalism that the cosmos provokes in
— Richard Dawkins
It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion.
— Jaime King
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
— David Foster Wallace
No one provokes me with impunity.
— Mary, Queen Of Scots
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
— Elizabeth Montagu
It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
— William Shakespeare
I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.
— Brenda Brathwaite
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
— Leonard Bernstein
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship
— Thea Harris
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
— John Calvin
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
— Mason Cooley
Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.
— Lesslie Newbigin
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
— Keith Haring
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Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49 — Pope Benedict XVI
Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49 — Pope Benedict XVI
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
— Naomi Wolf
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
— Seneca.
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
— John Bunyan
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
— Sebastian Faulks
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
— David Mitchell
Never do what the devil provokes you to do
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
— Nigel Barker
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
— Joanne Froggatt
Every sin provokes its punishment.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
— Wassily Kandinsky
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
— Samuel Johnson
His gentleman's hesitation in the car earlier is gone, replaced with a confidence that provokes.
— K.A. Tucker
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
— Francis Bacon
Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment,
— Pema Chodron
Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.
— Thomas Wilson
Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.
— A. Zavarelli
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
— Ray Bradbury
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
— Octave Mirbeau
Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.
— Daniel Humair
When people hear needs, it provokes compassion.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
— Andrew Pyper