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Quotes About Provoking

I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.
~ Ben Foster
I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There's some wood for you bitch!
~ Gillian Flynn
Oh no he does not! He does NOT read James Freaking Patterson. Our salvation - our provider…we must be out of our minds. I happen to find Patterson thought provoking and suspenseful. You what? Did you just say you find James Patterson thought provoking and suspenseful? Jesus Christ open your eyes! Are you so desperate to believe that you're defending James Patterson?!
~ Shalom Auslander
Following the invasion of April 2003 and the rapid defeat of an army that mostly disappeared, the United States and its allies found their forces, as well as the Iraqi population, under continuous attack by an enemy whose exact identity seemed elusive. While failing to link Saddam and terrorists, the United States succeeded in provoking the very terrorism that it had failed to find.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
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
I would certainly spank my mom.
~ José Medina
Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron," I said.
~ Ernest Cline
The three greatest dolts in the world: Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and I.
~ Simän Bolävar
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others
~ Sir Thomas More
If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Galatians 5:25–26
~ Beth Moore
I backhanded him, he punched me and it was a red rag to a bull. I hit him a few times around the face – hard, but not letting myself go – until the door lads came over and grabbed him to drag him
~ Stuart Howarth
Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best . . . offense. "You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were . . . rude.
~ Faith Hunter
What about your play, Terry? Pushing past the little brother into the office. Like you didn't think that would start some shit. You pushed the action with that little move and you know it.
~ Michael Connelly
Mussolini was a wanker.
~ Bill Buford
Tu n'es qu'un chien, né de l'union d'un porc et de ta mère. Qu'Allah maudisse ta descendance de bouc...
~ Gérard de Villiers
Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.
~ Thomas Hardy
Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class o' society, because though they be never right, they be never more than half wrong.
~ Thomas Hardy
DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN.
~ Thomas Pynchon
My belated recognition of his desire actually served the purpose of provoking me to consider him, if only for a moment. It was like high school when just to hear that a boy liked you was sufficient encouragement to agree to go steady with him by the end of the day. Now that I think of it, it is just like life. Not high school.
~ Susanna Moore
Toda mujer es una maquina de follar.
~ Charles Bukowski
You mentioned that the McGillahees would fight if provoked. I intend to provoke the bloody hell out of you right here and now.
~ Kersten Hamilton
You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window.
~ Cassandra Clare
Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.
~ Eamon Dunphy
One sailor telling another that his beard smelled of smoke was tantamount to provoking a fight.
~ Laurence Bergreen