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Quotes About Provokes

Every time Mr. Trump provokes howls from the establishment, his base cheers and gets re-energized.
~ Antony Blinken
Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.
~ Lesslie Newbigin
What provokes particular outrage and ridicule is the idea that children might feel good about themselves in the absence of impressive accomplishments, even though, as I'll show, studies find that unconditional self-esteem is a key component of psychological health.
~ Alfie Kohn
The public response to feminism has been ferociously defensive precisely because feminism touches such a deep nerve of truth and the denial that keeps us from it. If feminism were truly ridiculous, it would be ignored. But it isn't ridiculous, and so provokes a vigorous backlash.
~ Allan G. Johnson
Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I'm Ku'Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we're all going to have s'mores together?
~ Kim Harrison
If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.
~ young edward iii
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
~ Louisa May Alcott
The truth is that as soon as I feel well, you destroy everything until I feel bad again, because the life that gives me relief provokes you to anger…. But it is saddening that I cannot have your affection and my health at the same time."6 The
~ Alice Miller
Feminism is still a subject which provokes passion and, it has to be said, unreason. 'Are you for it or against it?' is the most question. But such polarization is now unhelpful, obscuring an understanding of what feminism has achieved, what has changed, and what role gender now actually does play.
~ Rosalind Coward
I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
~ Crystal Reed
Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.
~ Daniel Humair
I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.
~ Brenda Brathwaite
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
~ Joanne Froggatt
listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
~ Elizabeth Montagu
I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
~ Fashawn
Exactly," T'Pol said. "Surak wrote of this in the Kir'Shara. 'Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.
~ Christopher L. Bennett
Aggression in the name of defense provokes its own reflection.' Employing intimidation as a means to subdue an enemy usually backfires, making them more aggressive rather than less.
~ Christopher L. Bennett
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
~ Francis Bacon
There are no set forms of high treason in history; whoever provokes one power in the state to conflict with another is certainly a revolutionist, but he may be at the same time a discerning and praiseworthy statesman.
~ Theodor Mommsen
The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.
~ Mehdi Hasan
The absence of verifiable news provokes rumors
~ Paul Theroux
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky