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Quotes About Provocation

Porque o mineiro só é solidário no câncer. Mamãe, o mineiro só é solidário no câncer. d. ivete (furiosa) Ã¢â'¬â€ Não repete! (Edgard recua diante da mãe, com cheque numa mão e o isqueiro aceso, na outra.) edgard — O mineiro só é solidário no câncer! d. ivete (como uma louca) Ã¢â'¬â€ Chega! Chega! (A velha tapa os ouvidos.) edgard
~ Nelson Rodrigues
You fatuous old bag of tripe!
~ Ngaio Marsh
Goodness provokes bitchiness. It's mathematical. It's somewhere in the human genes. Any number of lovely people are married to horrible ones.
~ Niall Williams
The butcher bird makes its noise And asks you to agree With its brutal nesting habits And its pointless savagery Now, the nightingale sings to you And raises up the ante I put one hand on your round ripe heart And the other down your panties
~ Nick Cave
Listen, ah don't wanna speak ill of the dead but have ah told you that mah mother was a great whopping whale of a cunt? Well she was precisely that - a great whopping whale of a hog's cunt with a dirty maggot for a brain.
~ Nick Cave
After Rushdie, the fear of a knife in the ribs or a bomb at the office meant that liberals who stuck by liberalism were in the wrong. They knew the consequences now. If someone killed them, they were guilty of provoking their own murder. In the eyes of most politicians and most of the journalists, broadcasters, academics and intellectuals whose livelihoods depended on the freedom to debate and criticise, the targets of religious violence had no one to blame but themselves.
~ Nick Cohen
Yet you'd kill me if you could. Why, you have just tried! So why is your killing justified, and mine is not?
~ Unknown
Artists; those savage beasts that can't get enough of too much.
~ Unknown
Although the spitting incident was unnerving at the time, it did serve to set Roger's creative wheels spinning, and he developed the outline for a show based around the concept of an audience both physically and mentally separated from their idols. Whether the confrontation in Montreal
~ Nick Mason
To discover the fool there is no better reagent than the word "medieval." He immediately sees red.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.
~ Unknown
However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
~ Nikolai Gogol
How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?
~ Nikolai Gogol
Well, in this case,' said Chichikov, 'I haven't lied by even this much,' and with his thumb he marked off the very tip of his little finger. 'You Jesuit, you Jesuit! I'll bet you anything you're talking rot!' 'Listen, this is insulting! What's going on, anyway? Why do you think I have to be lying?
~ Nikolai Gogol
How dare you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
~ Nikolai Gogol
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
~ Unknown
ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You're making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We've all got lungs. Let's use them! Let's shriek like mad! Let's enjoy ourselves!
~ Noel Coward
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!
~ Noel Ignatiev
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
~ O. J. Simpson
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Le plus grand danger de la bombe d'un terroriste est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque
~ Octave Mirbeau
You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You're supposed to be dirty now. If you're clean, you make a target of yourself. People think you're showing off, trying to be better than they are. Among the younger kids, being clean is a great way to start a fight.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes