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Quotes About Provocation

I wasn't a sweet kid. I was an instigator and provoked everyone with my goofy hyena cackle, loving every minute of the drama I could create.
~ Adam F. Goldberg
This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.
~ Crystal Bowersox
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
~ Tim Roth
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
~ Daniel Clowes
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
~ Vladimir Putin
shawn is a bitch
~ redpandaguy
If Jesus returned their looks, these angry men would not see his look as it really is but would transform it into a mirror of their own anger. Their own challenge, their own provocation, is what they would read in the look of Jesus, no matter how peaceable it really is, and they would feel provoked in return. The confrontation could no longer be avoided and would bring about what Jesus is trying to prevent, the stoning of the victim. Jesus avoids thus even the shadow of provocation. When
~ Rene Girard
When Jesus says something that seems banal, it is necessary to be wary.
~ Rene Girard
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
~ Rex Stout
I invite trouble only when I'm paid for it.
~ Rex Stout
Third, I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
~ Rex Stout
We typed 'Boobs'.
~ Rian Hughes
Agesilao had his rivals even in Italy, chief among them Eugenio Pini from Livorno, who could be just as short-tempered. When he fought Rue "The Invincible," the French master who, hit twice in succession, failed to acknowledge being hit as etiquette dictated, Pini pulled the button from his foil and with his next attack ripped open Rue's jacket. He then tore off his mask and shouted, "I suppose that one didn't arrive either?
~ Richard Cohen
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.
~ Richard Curtis
A heresia e a blasfêmia persistiam como disfarces pomposos para oprimir a liberdade da palavra, a qual sempre escolhe assuntos que provocam implicitamente nos opressores um mal-estar secreto.
~ Richard Gordon
You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out.
~ Richard Russo
Why do you keep coming back here, Belinda Swanson?" Adam asked coolly. "I must be so fascinating to you." Deliberately
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not.
~ Rick Riordan
Want to hit Leo?
~ Rick Riordan
Your father is a complete___! I don't know what she called him, but I have a feeling that's when the first cuss were invented.
~ Rick Riordan
Its our loot. If you don't like it, you can kiss my quiver
~ Rick Riordan
Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.
~ Kate Brian
Why do you ask me questions to which you already know the answer? She tapped me on the arm with her painted fan. To annoy you, dearest.
~ Kate Elliott
Show yourself, you dirty, rotten, sneaky, yellow-bellied lizard of a wife-stealer!
~ Kate McMullan