Provoke Quotes

When you have someone selling himself so vigorously, you will provoke a reaction, even personal animosity. If all you see when you walk around is someone's cheerful grin saying everything is really ok, well, you're going to get annoyed. - James Walston

When we came to work here we came with a mission. We wanted to shine light in dark corners and make the world a better place. We wanted to expose corruption. We wanted to provoke thought, debate and, yes, laughter. ...I don't believe that a newspaper is nothing more than a money machine. If you do, dear reader, then we have failed miserably in our commitment to you. - Mike Cassidy

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: / I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. - Bible

When there's a stimuli that's provoked, it creates a behavior to reduce that anxiety. If there's an anxiety centered on whether the information will get there [electronically], the option is to not do it. - Eric Storch

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. - Erica Jong

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

What we have been doing here in our country is nothing new and far from accepted norms and practices that should provoke the hue and cry that we are witnessing these days. - Ramesh Nath Pandey

What this charge is saying is that if you commit a felony and during the course of that felony, you provoke a deadly confrontation and some is killed, you can be held liable. - Lt. Loyd Baker

What she said seemed to matter. She provoked response, discussion, arguments. She was so passionate. - Leonard Maltin

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other. - Mary Douglas