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Quotes About Provocation

This it the hand that slapped Aunt B, here you can touch it since you're my best friend
~ Ilona Andrews
I would strangle her in a minute. I sat down at the table and smiled at her. "My patience is an infinite lake. Feel free to drown yourself." There were times when ancient proverbs came in handy.
~ Ilona Andrews
Want to add anything to this discussion?" The big merc sucked in a hoarse breath. His face shook with the strain of making words come out. ". . . Fuck you!" Oh, you dimwit. "Fuck you!" "Leroy!" Camo Pants barked. "And fuck your bitch, too!" Leroy declared. Curran looked at me. "How about now? Can I twist his head off now?
~ Ilona Andrews
If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
~ Sun Tzu
Like 'Ken Park's' director, Larry Clark, Germaine Greer deliberately provokes controversy with the cheapest trick.
~ Miranda Devine
I put bounties on guys. And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now.
~ Cris Carter
Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.
~ Jake LaMotta
We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.
~ Roger Andrew Taylor
Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
~ Estelle
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
~ Brian Molko
Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't look for trouble.
~ Sid Vicious
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
Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
~ Rob Manuel
I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
~ John Waters
But if you work in the rock industry, you should realize that the most important bands are the troublemakers.
~ Cedric Bixler-Zavala
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
~ John Sutter
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
~ Eva Mendes
Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.
~ Kurt Andersen
It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.
~ Cory Booker
I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.
~ Lydia Lunch
I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.
~ Blake Shelton
When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.
~ Eric S. Raymond
You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.
~ Dwayne Johnson