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Quotes About Instigation

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.
~ Brad Marchand
Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
~ Jeremy Gilley
One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.
~ Dana White
Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
It was politicians saying, "Let's you and him fight!
~ Mary Doria Russell
provocation.
~ Barry Eisler
if you tease a dog, it bites.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump just loved to pit people against each other.
~ Bob Woodward
Divorce is horrible, no matter who instigates it. It's very traumatic.
~ Rick Stein
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
~ Joey Comeau
If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
~ Stephen Clarke
More than anyone he had brought the USSR into being.
~ Stephen Kotkin
It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
~ Patty Hearst
Was it an awakening to the bizarreness of the world that instigated their flight, or was curiosity a consequence of their running away?
~ Storm Constantine
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
~ Robert Smith
An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.
~ Thomas Hardy
I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.
~ Suzanne Collins
Clifford, except for Phoebe's more active instigation, would ordinarily have yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of being, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair, till eventide.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
If there was a beehive to be poked with a stick, McDonald wasn't going to stand around eating store-bought honey.
~ Kim Todd
It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.
~ George Webbe Dasent
You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.
~ Masego
Avevamo in comune un'importante teoria sulle risse: quando pare che stia per scoppiarne una, mena per primo.
~ Norman Maclean
Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.
~ Beau Bridges