Best Provoked Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But worse- much, much worse- she'd run away herself. That was unpardonable, unforgivable, unjustifiable. Hit him, shame him, spit at him- anything but turn her back on him. She couldn't simply quit their game. That, that was not allowed. And when he'd realized that she was out there on the stormy night moor, alone save an aristocratic lady and a goddamned bloody pony... He growled beneath his breath. She stilled against him, like a rabbit under a hound's jaws, her heart beating rapidly, and he was glad. She ought to be afraid of him. He was a very bad man and she was completely under his power. He could do anything to her. Anything at all, really. Time she learned that.”

Provoked Val Napier Bridget Crumb

Book:Duke of Sin

Source: Duke of Sin

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

Honesty Painful Confusion Thinker Hardcore Provoked Aggravated Painful Truth

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”

Two Used Lost Given Difficult Poverty Mines Research Devotion Enthusiasm Pens Fountain Pencils Provoked Nickels Fountain Pens Ballpoint Pens

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”

Feels Art Desire Creativity Events Poet Worship Impulse Awe Works Of Art Transformed Passive Rite Provoked

Author:W. H. Auden

“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK

“As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.”

Book Reading Wish Answers Offers Reports Books And Reading Provoked

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Government Poor Wise Mets Mass Anarchy Peasants Riot Unrest Provoked

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”

Feels Moments Dies Individual Tragedy Selfish Patriotic Routine Insensitive Provoked Tithe Commemoration

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.”

Mind Ideas Sound Fiction Provoked

Author:Vernon Reid

“I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.”

People Numbers Advantage Average Foolish Proportion Sensible Provoked

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Men War Done Hands Hurt White Support Blood Weight Rose Injustice Our Family Shed White Man Veins Massacres Unheard Forts Provoked Support Me Indignity

Author:Sitting Bull

“This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order.”

Ifs Needs Ends Country Order Force Grows My Own Rooms Trouble Democratic Protection Newspapers Tales Minorities Tourists Shameful Atrocities Maine Provoked Vermont

Author:Gracie Allen

“Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.”

Term Expectations Series Population Trends Fulfilled Doom Short Term Interpreter Oracles Provoked

Author:Thomas Malthus

“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.”

“If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.”

Ifs Way Asks Love Is Trouble Evidence Block Temptation God's Love Provoked

Author:T. B. Joshua

“All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.”

Thinking Should Mind Wells Persons Important Position Ears Treated Poison Subordinates Susceptible Patron Animosity Provoked Important Person

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“War should neither be feared nor provoked.”

Should War Provoked

Author:Pliny the Elder

“If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

Ifs Needs Believe May Ends Hard Hate Waiting Doubt Love You I Hate Instruction Again And Again Hate You I Hate You Say I Love You Hard To Believe Provoked

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”

Two Father Interest Reader Filled Jazz Very Good Storytelling Two Things Storyteller Pianist Provoked Avid

Author:Athol Fugard

“When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.”

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.”

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.”

Thinking Way Ideas Self Character Film Certain Deals Audience Greater Members Asking Distance Serving Questioning Discourse Arena Objectivity Wrong Way Self Serving Provoked

Author:Colin Farrell

“The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can't be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that job for which a real leader has cautioned them by showing the things that should not be done.”

Should Real Done Jobs Numbers Leader Tasks Provoked Pretender

Author:Anuj

“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?”

Want Children Doe Self Moments Seems Next Difficult Quality Mystery Complaining Self Reliance Reliance Shifting Ambiguity Helplessness Often Is Women Want Provoked Ambivalence Puzzling

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.”

People Thinking Humans Whole Shows Humanity History Kings Hundred Species Titles Ministers Fifty Historian Contempt Pope Emperor Human Species Provoked

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.”

Way Made Hell Fire Blood Feet Ready Hot Prepared Rage Mythology Flames Crush Wicked Insects Spiders Pits Garments Stains Furnaces Provoked Sprinkles Fierceness

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.”

Looks Hell Fire Casts Worthy Look Up Spiders Wrath Pits Provoked

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.”

People Has Beens Wise Universal Corruption Tyranny Cruelty Empires Republic Conspiracy Virtuous Vengeance Revival Emperor Provoked Wise People Incorrigible

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

Needs Hate Waiting Instruction Again And Again Provoked

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.”

Ifs Facts Modern Hypocrisy Spite Modern Society Backlash Provoked Puritanism

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.”

War Force Response Communist Provoked Laos Escalation

Book:At War with Asia

Source: At War with Asia

“Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.”

People Book Pleasure Building Sensual Streams Melancholy Sentimental Provoked Sensual Pleasure

Book:Intimate notebook, 1840-1841

Source: Intimate notebook, 1840-1841

“Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.”

Stills Might Realization Uncomfortable Peculiar Unnatural Susceptible Provoked

Author:P. D. James

“The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.”

Soul Perfect Peaceful Servant Tranquil Servant Of God Provoked

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.”

World States United Party Leader United States Trump Republican Bars Around The World Presidential Candidates Entering Condemnation Presidential Candidate Provoked

Author:Steve Inskeep

“I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii...a lot of bad habits.”

Habit Vietnam Quantity Bad Habits Provoked

Author:Bui Diem

“When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.”

People World Way Kind Certain Poor Saws This World Legacy Indifference Bias Poor People Plight Unfairness Provoked Insensitivity Unreliability Racial Bias

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"”

Country Stuff Black Audience Lays Curiosity Our Country Whispering Provoked Hillbilly

Author:Chuck Berry

“How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?”

World Needs Made Lying Suffering Wish Love Is Movement Preserves Provoked

Author:Marcel Proust

“We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.”

Want Country Reality Trump Hatred Comment Imports Provoked

Author:Tulip Siddiq

“When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.”

Lines Behinds Behavior Red Crosses Tests Clinton Response Terrorist Russia Iran Syria Korea North Korea Ukraine Missiles Provoked Bad Behavior Sony Embassy Benghazi Red Lines No Response

Author:Carly Fiorina

“You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Two Play Hours Half Watches Taken My Way Charging Provoked

Author:Mark Lanegan

“To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.”

Ifs Way Should Children Doe Parent Understanding Sin Praying Raises Salvation Saved Daily Life Irritated Irritation Provoked

Author:Esther Smith

“Encircled and provoked, Russia is once again turning into a mighty monolithic defense wall. Its people are ready! They want peace, above anything else. But if they'd have to fight for their own survival, and for the survival of the world, they will.”

People Ifs World Want Fighting Ready Wall Survival Defense Russia Provoked

Author:Andre Vltchek

“Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.”

“A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.”

Men Should Fingers Nuclear Code Tweet Provoked

Author:Hillary Clinton

“That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on any nuclear material. So a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes, as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Should Hands Faces Numbers Materials Concerned Threat Fingers Nuclear Terrorist Code Threatening Tweet Provoked

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by those who had no wish to let us live together - on the eve of the Partition. The policy of keeping us divided was always followed by foreigners, even after the Partition. If Indians and Pakistanis had been together...I don't say as confederated countries but as neighboring and friendly countries...like Italy and France, for example ...believe me, both of us would have progressed much further.”

Ifs Believe Country Together Found Wish Groups Policy Example British France Friendly Divided Believe In Me Hostile Foreigners Clash Provoked Partition

Author:Indira Gandhi

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