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Quotes About Provocation

Why, I'll bet my uncle Davey could take you out in the first round, ya macaroon.
~ Christopher Moore
Strum one chord on that thing, you bellowing cow, and I will beat you to death with it and dismember your corpse with the strings.
~ Christopher Moore
If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon
~ Christopher Paolini
He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.
~ Christopher Paolini
What of it? If you don't make a few enemies every now and then, you're a coward - or worse. Besides, it was worth it to see his reaction.
~ Christopher Paolini
I am a vampire, I say softly. And you have pissed me off.
~ Christopher Pike
Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
~ Tupac Shakur
I felt like poisoning a monk.
~ Umberto Eco
I began writing in March of 1978, prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.
~ Umberto Eco
Call Bogomil that whore you screw at night, with your heretic cock, you pig!
~ Umberto Eco
I remembered one of the many stories about him: some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!
~ Umberto Eco
Badate bene che oggi per controbattere un'accusa non è necessario provare il contrario, basta delegittimare l'accusatore.
~ Umberto Eco
You understand how it is worked—they send their bullies into the country to provoke disturbances, and when the police put them down, that's an atrocity.
~ Upton Sinclair
Los verdaderos poemas son incendios.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Over many years bin Laden cited dozens of concocted reasons about why he attacked the United States; the only valid one was that he attacked America because he thought—to paraphrase Margaret Atwood—with good reason, he could get away with it.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare.
~ Victor Hugo
A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.
~ Victor Hugo
He flew into a rage on every occasion, most frequently when wrong.
~ Victor Hugo
Father, you owe my husband affront for affront." The father asked: "Upon which cheek did you receive the blow?" "Upon the left cheek." The father struck the right cheek, and said: "Now you are satisfied. Go and tell your husband that he has struck my daughter, but that I have struck his wife.
~ Victor Hugo
tempers caught fire as easily as backyards.
~ Kristin Hannah
If you aren't pretty, start trouble.
~ Kristopher Reisz
I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
~ Kurt Cobain
more than any act of God it is human activity (corruption, greed, exploitation) that continues to provoke the greatest disasters in Mexico City.
~ Kurt Hollander
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
~ Kurt Student