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Quotes About Provocation

She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons.
~ Unknown
Come athwart my hawse and I shall ride you down, you half-baked son of an Egyptian fart,' to a wool-gathering jolly-boat; and art echoed from either shore.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You
~ Patrick O'Brian
Sitting on my stool I thought of a bumper sticker: If Mean People Suck, Why Isn't My Dick In Your Mouth?
~ Paul Neilan
It seemed that his anger was partly theatrical, that he was amping up his shouts to intimidate me.
~ Paul Theroux
They were in my briefcase, in the trunk, but I was hesitant to get out of the car. I was much taller than the policeman, and he might make my height a cause for provocation
~ Paul Theroux
One child was provoked to a stumbling dance at the feet of the fiddler, who was sawing his heart out with his eyes shut.
~ Paul Theroux
Thus, he had thrust his hands and sex into her, ransacked and ravaged her mouth and rear, but condescended only to place his lips upon her fingertips.
~ Pauline Réage
I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours
~ Paulo Coelho
Instead of reacting aggressively when we're provoked, endlessly perpetuating the cycle of pain, we trust that we can engage with others from a place of curiosity and caring and in that way contact their innate decency and wisdom.
~ Pema Chodron
You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.
~ Sophocles
Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
The weaker the partner is viewed by the Muslims, then the greater the anger which they express. And this anger is often carefully staged.
~ Bassam Tibi
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
~ Publilius Syrus
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
~ Duane Michals
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.
~ Tim Fargo
OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUTAGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECTSOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSEENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAYSO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.
~ Jenny Holzer
But it always came back to anger.
~ Unknown
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
~ Antonin Scalia
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
~ Larry Flynt
You never win an argument until they attack your person.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
~ George Savile
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
~ Banksy, Wall and Piece