Quotes About Provoked

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

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?

Every emotion, though horizontally provoked, nevertheless reflects something about the vertical dimension: our relationship with God.

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

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

El sufismo es experiencial. Las capacidades, incluso aquellas necesarias para aprender más allá de cierto punto, son provocadas por los Sufis, por los propios esfuerzos y lo que resulta de ellos, y por un elemento al cual los Sufis se refieren como lo Divino.

I think some people deserve to get their asses kicked

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that's never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.

Olive later said her release provoked mixed reactions from the rest of the tribe.

Whose forbidden hold was this? What had he provoked? He wrapped trembling fingers around the first small, shining thing he found, and fled. For the vault was more than a treasury: piles of preciouses nested beneath the coils of a snoring serpent. It was a bed.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

I feel that all the various features of Nature around me…provoked an emotional reaction in the depth of my soul, which I have tried to transcribe in music" wrote Franz Liszt during his stay here.

You've asked for it, Georges Dandin, you've asked for it.

Jackson's personality was a crucial part of his democratic appeal as well as the animosity he provoked.