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Quotes About Provocation

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
~ Seneca
If they do anything to me, just skin them alive, sweetheart," I said. "I'll do more than that-- I'll make them eat their own skins.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Tek sad shvativši ironiju slu?aja, po?eh luda?ki da se smejem. Mene su, objekat provokacije Tamnih, sakrili u žensko telo! U Telo šefove ljubavnice, stare kao sabor Bogorodi?ne crkve u Parizu!
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
What a world, thought Kugel; whoever you were, wherever you were, whatever time of the day or night, you could open your back door and call out I know you're out there motherfucker, and nine times out of ten you'd be right.
~ Shalom Auslander
As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, "Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
~ Shane Claiborne
I didn't mean to push your psycho button.
~ Shannon K. Butcher
She said you were probably plastic and Uncle Kevin said he'd give you a feel and let her know and then Uncle Joe punched him in the shoulder and said the only thing he'd feel is his A-S-S getting kicked if he tried.
~ Shannon Stacey
If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.
~ Shannon Stacey
She frowned. "I did nothing to arouse you." He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. "You breathed.
~ Shayla Black
The elevator doors opened on the first floor and Van Holtz was waiting there with several bags of groceries in his hands. "Oh. You," he said. He started to walk in and, without thinking, simply reacting, Bo shoved him back out of the elevator by his head and hit the elevator button again. "You asshole!" Bo heard as the door closed.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Hey, hey!" Gwen said excitedly. "Look at this! Look at this!" She extended her arm and gave him the finger.
~ Shelly Laurenston
While the two females snarled viciously at each other, Ric grabbed a stick from the ground and waved it between Jess and Blayne. "Look! Look! A stick! Who wants it? Who wants it? Go get it!" He threw the stick and Jess and Blayne watched it flip across the forest floor. Once it landed, they looked back at Ric. "Dude," Jess told him, "that was just rude.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Dee-Ann came back in the hallway and both men stopped and stared at her. "Just came back to get some water out of the fridge." When neither man said anything to her, she asked, "Somethin' wrong?" Ric stepped forward. "How many children do you want?" Lock grabbed Ric by his hair and yanked him back, slamming him into the front door. "Ow!
~ Shelly Laurenston
Attacking someone without warning for something they did weeks before? Check. Ready to turn a simple breed dispute into something far uglier with the razor blade she kept on her at all times? Check. Using blood as a weapon of rudeness? Check. Threatening death? Check. Attacking a helpful stranger or friend? Check. Kissing a helpful stranger or friend without warning or permission? Check. Yeah, it only took Gwen six weeks to become her mother.
~ Shelly Laurenston
So, what happened to your face?" Sara grabbed Miki by her T-shirt and jeans before she could dive over the counter at the Asian girl they called Kelly. Angelina leaned forward as Sara pulled Miki back to her, "You know what they say about curiosity? That it stabbed the annoying biker girl over and over and over again until she spit up blood." Oh, yeah. That was subtle.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Van Holtz, you bastard! You're doing this on purp…on…oh! That feels very nice. Do that again.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back. Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?" "And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
~ Quentin Tarantino
That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway.
~ Rachel Caine
The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.
~ Richard M. Nixon
readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.
~ Emma Goldman
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
~ Suzanne Fields
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
~ Sebastiao Salgado