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Is it better to have something perfect that doesn't fit or something imperfect that fits? — Buffi Neal

I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration. — Petra Remes

Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality. — Steven Redhead

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. — Charlotte Forten Grimke

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present. — Eoin Colfer

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose. — Todd William

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. — Julie Otsuka

If you have to think about relaxing, are you really relaxing? — Janice Thompson

Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion? — Marjane Satrapi

It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it. — Jim Rohn

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval. — Patricia C. Wrede

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. — Martin Kippenberger

One sin another doth provoke. — William Shakespeare

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler. — Rainbow Rowell

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed. — Sarah Benson

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka. — Flannery O'Connor

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. — Carl Sagan

One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY. — Shay Dawkins

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking. — Charlie Kaufman

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more? — Michael J. Collins

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

There is nothing sexier than sword fight. — Stana Katic

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying. — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. — Charles Lamb

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. — Pythagoras

What a man does not know is greater than he. — Chinua Achebe

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. — Sun Tzu

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen. — DeiAmor Verus

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

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes. — Abhijit Naskar

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. — Nina Guilbeau

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger. — Karen Marie Moning

Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose? — Patrick McGrath

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. — Brennan Manning

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience. — Alan McCluskey

I have no fear, I have only love — Stevie Nicks

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus. — Francis Chan

I missed the future. — John Green

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are! — B.A. Gabrielle

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do. — Becca Fitzpatrick

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. — Jacqueline Novogratz

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all. — Hans Kung

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem — Michele McKnight Baker

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves. — Norton Juster

We don't see profit as a blind instrument. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians. — Dan Poynter

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred. — Rob Brezsny

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking. — Jamie Hyneman

HONOR IS RESPECT. INTEGRITY EARNS BOTH — Lorenzo Victory

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We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe. — Sara Eckel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories. — Elie Wiesel

a towering mass of lust-provoking maleness. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

The time for change is now. — Jacqueline Novogratz

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence. — Paul Simon

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.
And sometimes the road chooses us. — Richie Singh

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom. — Trina Paulus

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision. — C. Nzingha Smith

All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford. — Jacqueline Novogratz

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

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less. — Francis Chan

Nothing important happens in life without a cost. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing. — Flannery O'Connor

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you? — Elizabeth Chandler

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

All dreams continue in the beyond. — Tom Robbins

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, — Nomi Prins

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first. — Rick Yancey

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream. — Tom Franklin

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally. — David D. Glass

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet. — Jacqueline Novogratz

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. — I.E. Castellano

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm. — Katey Sagal

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. — C.S. Lewis

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

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people. — Suzanne Collins

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen. — Simone Elkeles

Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions.
Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. — Bilal Hussain

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. — Bertrand Russell

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity. — Sunny Singh

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great. — Shay Dawkins

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

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache — Chinua Achebe

Every sin provokes its punishment. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The law isn't merciful. — Cate Campbell Beatty

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead. — Rebecca Wells

The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all. — David Packard

The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled. — Darren Shan

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. — A.T. Baron

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be. — Parul Wadhwa

GOD IS YOUR THOUGHTS — Colin Tegerdine