Quotes About Provocation

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

What bothers you most, the fact that I beat your score on the shooting range, or that I broke your nose and kneed you in the nuts?

He sat back envisioning himself poking a stick at a tiger through the bars of a cage. Then the tiger grew angry, lunged, and snapped the stick off in his hand.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Origin Debated

Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

Otro plan que llegó a oídos de los estadounidenses fue que los kuwaitíes ejecutarían a un gran número de palestinos para «intentar provocar una huida masiva de la comunidad y provocar así el éxodo». Se trataba de una variación del método utilizado por Israel para despoblar el oeste de Palestina en 1948, aunque los estadounidenses no hicieron esta observación.

Strike had long since come to believe that she engineered situations out of an apparently insatiable need for conflict.

A rock through a window never comes with a kiss. Blue Öyster Cult, "Madness to the Method

Maybe (she was deliberately inflaming her own resentment now, and she knew it)

mythomania, her need to provoke, to taunt, to test.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,

What makes people do things like that?" Robin asked, in genuine perplexity. "They're shits," said Strike.

What is> forbidden had better be done pretty quickly.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole!

A man unhated is a man who makes no mark. A man must take pride in those who hate him.

I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock. (In The Court Of The Dragon)

Thank you very much," said I cold-bloodedly, left the book, which had been most absolutely widely distributed because it had unconditionally to have been read, as I chose, where it was, and softly withdrew, without wasting another word. "Uncultivated and ignorant man!" shouted the bookseller after me, for he was most justifiably and deeply vexed.

Being snubbed added to Goldblatt's fury. "Your impudence is astounding," he growled.

is now generally accepted that these issues were subordinate to the fact that Germany had been planning a European war for a long time and seized on the Balkan issue in 1914 as the excuse to provoke one.

Indeed, the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp's urinal was one—quite a good one the first time around, corny by mid-twentieth century, and downright stupid today.