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Quotes About Provocation

Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.
~ Nuseir Yassin
I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
~ Cenk Uygur
North Korea is really just the kid who decided he'd be 'all out crazy,' hoping people would be scared off by the tirades and avoid stepping up to the plate.
~ Steven Crowder
I'd like to fuck Andrea Laiacona and see her tits, but I can't get hard and I prefer Big Pharma, anyway! (Color me 'bitch' — I ain't shit !)
~ Thomas Frank
He wanted to say, That's my business, and mind yours. He wanted to ask them if they had a beat they should be walking. He sorely wanted to mouth off, and right then he didn't even mind being outnumbered two to one. But they had thousands at their backs. So he tried to look friendly. Even smiled. Hating himself for it.
~ Thomas Mullen
One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?
~ Thornton Wilder
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~ Thucydides
Move," he said again. "This is a dangerous game, Jenna." "Why?" "'Cause I'm seconds from fucking the shit out of you.
~ Tia Williams
Life is an Invitation, Provocation, and a Celebration.
~ Tilak Fernando
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
~ Tillotson
She knew my buttons and kept pressing them like an epileptic in an arcade. If it's any consolation, I gave her fair warning." "Oh, my God!
~ Tim Dorsey
But how do you plan to convince everyone we're on the same side?" "Instead of being slaves to our toxic emotional times, we harness that outrage," said Serge. "So we just change the national slogan from 'Land of the Free' to 'Fuck Canada.' " Coleman nodded. "I think everyone can get behind that.
~ Tim Dorsey
Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.
~ Tim Dorsey
Jesus. Why'd you do that?" "That motherfucker slapped me!" "And you just kill him?" "You never motherfuckin' hit a woman!" "How could he have missed you dedication of feminine virtue, especially when you keep saying motherfucker?
~ Tim Dorsey
If I want to turn up to the NWA and cause some noise, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
~ Marty Scurll
Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.
~ Jonathan Anderson
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
~ Ted Nugent
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
~ Simon Schama
I'm not interested in entertainment.
~ Howard Barker
You have to hit people over the head to make them notice, and I did it.
~ Terence Trent D'Arby
The best way to get noticed is to take someone that everyone loves and admires and knock him.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.
~ Michael Israel
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
~ Heinrich Heine
People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.
~ Johnny Knoxville