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Quotes About Provocation

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
~ John Boehner
Every dog has one free bite. A dog cannot be presumed to be vicious until he has proved that he is by biting someone.
~ John Brooks
A good question is never answered.
~ John Ciardi
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries
~ John Cleese
Beware the fury of a patient man.
~ John Dryden
There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.
~ Laurence Fox
The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.
~ Chelsea Handler
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
~ Christopher Hitchens
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
~ Edward Gorey
Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
~ Edward Hirsch
The world's elites have helped to provoke what they feared: a populist uprising against the world economy.
~ Edward Luce
This is adding insult to injury.
~ Edward Moore
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
~ Edward Norton
When people are angry, any insult will do; and prejudice is magnified into a cause.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Meglio non farmi incazzare. Ho il cuore acuminato come le schegge di un'esplosione.
~ Efraim Medina Reyes
If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift.
~ Eileen Myles
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
~ Elbert Hubbard
My slogan? PUT A BLACK FINGER ON THE NUCLEAR TRIGGER. 400 years of docility, of being calm, cool and collected under stress and strain would go to prove that I was the man for the job, that I would not panic in a crisis and push the button.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Si fermò in tempo ma non abbastanza perché non capissi: fu come quando uno fa cenno di volerti dare uno schiaffo e poi non te lo dà.
~ Elena Ferrante
Eu me considerava horrível e queria ser cada vez mais horrível. Já havia um tempo que, antes de ir para a escola, eu me empenhava diante do espelho para me vestir e me pentear como uma louca. Queria que as pessoas ficassem de má vontade do meu lado, exatamente como eu tentava mostrar que me sentia na companhia delas.
~ Elena Ferrante
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.
~ Elias Canetti
All Writing Is Garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try to put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. The whole literary scene is a pigpen, especially today.
~ Antonin Artaud
Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theater is not possible.
~ Antonin Artaud