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Quotes About Provocation

Shift laughed. 'The ways in which you want to think badly of me are interesting.' 'Who eats mice?
~ Elizabeth Knox
Don't you like them?" She ran her fingers across the waistband of her panties. "I'm afraid I can't appreciate them in such low lighting. You will have to take them off and let me have a better look." He tried to smile innocently. She rested her hands on her hips and shook her head slowly. "Very well. I will have to do it for you." He took a step closer to her.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
His lips turned upward. "Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
I indicated to Karl slumped on the stool next to Clare at the bar. The fucking jerk didn't deserve a free lap dance, but it was the only way to get him away from Clare without ripping out his jugular.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Diogenes's goal, he said, was "to deface the coinage," meaning strip away the false conventions on which society was built and expose the raw reality underneath.
~ Arthur Herman
One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap.—And I found her bitter.—And I cursed her.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I shall gash myself all over. I shall tattoo myself. I want to become as hideous as a Mongol. You'll see, I'll go screaming through the streets.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Mr. Charnock said: Men that are great in the world are quick in passion, and are not so ready to forgive an injury, or bear with an offender, as one of a meaner rank. It is a want of power over that man's self that makes him do unbecoming things upon a provocation. A prince that can bridle his passions is a king over himself as well as over his subjects. God is slow to anger because great in power. He has no less power over Himself than over His creatures.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Qué otro objeto tiene un vestido de mujer sino incitar a quitárselo?
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
y al romper el alba les volamos con mina un baluarte con treinta fulanos dentro, despertándolos de muy mala manera y demostrando que no a todo el que madruga
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead
~ Augusten Burroughs
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
~ Austin O'Malley
The one who causes anger is excused, one who gets is accused.
~ B. J. Gupta
Don't you want to know the kind of woman I am?" When he said nothing, she continued. "I'm like your father. When I start something I finish it." Cull seemed to consider that before he turned toward her, his lips quirking into a grin as his eyes blazed with challenge. "Is that right?" Before she could react, he grabbed her and dragged her to him. His mouth dropped to hers in a demanding kiss as he pushed her back against the barn wall.
~ B.J. Daniels
Best be ready for the consequences when you go poking a porcupine with a stick, missy. Someone's bound to get hurt and it won't be the porcupine.
~ B.J. Daniels
I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.
~ Brad Marchand
People can press your buttons and make you react... but it's not under your control.
~ Vinod Khanna
I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.
~ Franck Ribery
I don't ever judge somebody by what comes out of their mouth 'cause I don't know what they're thinking. Sometimes people might just say things just to see how you react about it. People might say things to you just to try to throw you off your game. Doesn't necessarily mean they're a racist.
~ P.K. Subban
As an artist, I want a reaction.
~ Chester Bennington
Creativity is about a reaction.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.
~ Michael Trucco
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
~ Irvine Welsh