Quotes About Provocation

Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.

Malcolm J. Moldowsky did not hesitate to address United States Congressman Dave Dilbeck as 'a card-carrying shithead.

Under what circumstances," she'd mused to Martin the hairdresser one Sunday morning in bed, "could you envision Jesus Christ, a humble carpenter, hawking rosaries at the Vatican Gift Shop?

Why didn't you just ring the doorbell?' Stoat said. 'Why break into the house, and why'd you bust the shower door?' 'To put you in the proper frame of mind,' the man replied. 'Also, I was in the mood for some serious goddamn noise.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

He asked you to shoot at people who weren't shooting back," growled Vimes, striding forward, "That makes him insane, wouldn't you say?" "They are throwing stones, Sarge," said Colon. "So? Stay out of range. They'll get tired before we do.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

It's the crudest insult he could fling at me, yet I manage to remain calm because nothing he says can hurt me now. I simply don't care. Instead I laugh. "You know, I've just realized something about you. You really are a bastard." "At least I'm not the one who wants to fuck the bush guide." "How do you know I haven't already?" He flings himself onto his side, turning his back to me.

We provoke each other to do more of what we say we don't like about the other!

when someone's in the box, the same pattern of mutual provocation and justification always emerges.

If one person keeps calm and smiles at a provocation, the whole world will have a better chance for peace.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

I was the one that, when we were younger, I would pop off first. If somebody got into it with me and my brother, I'm jumping off first.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.