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Quotes About Provokes

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
~ William Shakespeare
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore
~ William Shakespeare
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
~ Naomi Wolf
The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Ravenel temper," Pandora said with a sage nod, and whispered theatrically, "we have it too." "Our older sister Helen is the only one who doesn't," Cassandra added. "Nothing provokes her," Pandora said. "We've tried ever so often, but it never works.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It's not what you do for me on Valentine's Day that matters but the amount of jealousy it provokes in others.
~ Unknown
Nothing so provokes God as unbelief, for this means denying God directly and thus committing idolatry.
~ Martin Luther
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
~ Naomi Wolf
The law should restrict itself to punishing speech that directly provokes crime – incitement to murder, incitement to violence or incitement to arson. It should not punish incitement to hatred, because it is not a crime to hate people, any more than it is to envy them or to lust after them.
~ Nick Cohen