Provoked Quotes

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: / For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. - Bible

Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. - Bible

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. - Clive Bell

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. - Bible

[Four days later, he still refused to be provoked.] As the great Don Quixote said, 'Let the dogs bark. It's because we are moving forward,' ... If something happens to my physical person, you will know who to blame: George W. Bush. - Hugo Ch

(These were) unprovoked attacks on persons who simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Stephen Ross

(Also), the fact that businessmen carried on not just working under Japanese occupation, but producing critically needed war material for the Japanese war effort. This hadn't been revealed before, and it was the single aspect of the book that provoked the most controversy in Britain when it came out. - Bernard Wasserstein