Quotes About Provocation

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Taste my lash.

brother kicked my shin to silence me. Neighbor Goad's face deepened to purple. "Come again, mother-whelp?" "He's tipsy, Mr. Goad, sir," my brother muttered. "And green," he added, pinching

I've never shot any man who didn't demand it, one way or another." -Lynx

When he took her hand to lead her to the swing, she yanked it away and glared at him. He laughed and taunted, "I don't bite, Cal." "I think you do," she too quickly snapped, then flushed. -Lynx & Calinda

Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer got into a fistfight.

Kysymys : Miksi on enemmän kaneja kuin oravia? Vastaus : Yrittäisit itse nussia puussa.

Sanoin ihmisille totuuden, aina, sain itselleni lisänimen: Riidanhaastaja.

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me F*** you." Then I'll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I'll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.

Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.

no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)

uno hace descubrimientos extraños una vez que toca o es tocado, una vez que uno roza un muslo por accidente

as corrie was about to hang up, stacy said, i hope he shoots at my car. i've got a couple of black talon rounds just itching to explore his inner psyche.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.

His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land or sea, and illustrating his instruction or his admonition with the quaintest phraseology.

The provocation in her eyes increased his amusement—he had not supposed she would waste her powder on such small game; but perhaps she was only keeping her hand in; or perhaps a girl of her type had no conversation but of the personal kind. At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.

It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.

the bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.

People like theater that is safe, generally speaking — things that are easy, that are not too deeply troubling. In other words, people want to go to the theater and waste their time.

But the most casual provocation, the slightest motive of caprice or convenience, often provoked them to involve a whole people in an indiscriminate massacre; and the ruin of some flourishing cities was executed with such unrelenting perseverance, that, according to their own expression, horses might run, without stumbling, over the ground where they had once stood.

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

Sissy looked at the shot glass full of pig semen and threw it back neat.